Etikett: hälsingland
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Just another average quiet Saturday in Loos. Found a toad sunning itself on the trail. At first I thought it was dead, but then I saw the throat pulsing ever so little. I don’t know if it was cold and was trying to warm itself, or if the sun caught it in mid-stride and it…
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I owe an apology to SMHI. Lately I have been laughing at their forecasts but today they got it right, as unlikely as it seemed in the morning. At 1pm today, it was 5°C and snowing (see the forecast in my previous post). Wow! So that was the first snowfall of the season. Can I…
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I had planned another mountain hike for yesterday, this time just a day hike in Idre. The weather forecast kept warning about storm force winds though, so I decided that it’s best to stay at home. The wind was bad enough here as well, as my tripod so painfully discovered – it crashed down on…
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This is a story of ”I wouldn’t normally do that kind of thing”: Since my holiday, I haven’t been the least bit interested in taking any new pictures. In fact, I had almost settled on skipping August entirely and just wait for September, which is one of my favourite months. But on the bus home,…
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I was on holiday for the most of July, so I don’t have much data to go on, just one week. But here goes (almost) nothing: * * * Temperature (High): 21°C Temperature (Low): 12°C Temperature (Average): 17°C Barometer (High): 1008 mbar Barometer (Low): 998 mbar Barometer (Avg): 1003 mbar Total of sunny days: 0…
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June started off with a bang, with high summer temperatures. The period came to an abrupt end with a few days of rain – and the odd snowflake! No kidding. The rest of the month was rather dull, weatherwise, with temperatures between 10 and 20 degrees and hardly any rain at all. And speaking of…
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I had another look at the round-leaved wintergreens I had dismissed as un-photographable yesterday. With some generous gardening – and by that I mean weeding – I was able to get a clean background so I guess you could call this destructive photography rather than creative, I feel kinda bad for doing that. I have…
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Last year I discovered one-flowered wintergreens (Moneses uniflora) and round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) too late to shoot them, so I was determined to get them this year. Only problem was, I wasn’t seeing either of them in the locations where I found them last year, but after exploring the forests around me, I found them…
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Finally, an overcast day with little wind! I had a list of eight flowers I should theoretically be able to shoot today, and when I finished my shooting, I had nine. Only four of them from my list, though! Amazing things happen… I wanted to shoot early marsh orchids and was happy to find them…
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If I thought that yesterday was windy, then today was hopeless. All I could do was to scout, so I was all the more happier when I discovered some long-lost flowers nearby. I was actually looking for the round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) and found one (count them, o-n-e) where they were plentiful last year. At…