Toast and marmalade.
Only older photos today, this one is from the Edixa Reflex.
It is amazing how some days just pass by faster than light, still I can’t remember that I did especially much. To be honest I barely remember what I did 🙂 I painted some and I cleaned some but nothing special to be honest. I looked out the windows every now and again too and did get a bit annoyed to be honest.
Yesterday they did promise lots of fog and we got none, still we got lots of sunshine instead so I didn’t mind that much. Today they had promised lots of sunshine and we had fog and frost all day 🙂 All day I wished that I could be here at home, walk with the dogs and take lots of photos. There was some daylight left when I came home even if I had stopped by the grocery store on my way home. I just brought the Hasselblad camera with me and I do hope the photos didn’t become too dark. We’ll know when the film is developed.
I was cleaning the paintbox when I suddenly got a craving for toast with orange marmalade and cheese. I don’t know where that came from but I knew that I would have to go to the grocery store to get that white bread that is inedible unless one toast it, orange marmalade and some cheese because I didn’t have much left at home. I actually came home with most of it but instead of orange marmalade I had picked up a jar with apricot marmalade and one jar with pear marmalade 🙂 I think any of those will do to be honest.
The eight last photos comes from the Edixa too.
It is time to bring out that toaster of mine, I rarely use it so it always smell a bit odd when I start it up, just like old electric radiators that hasn’t been used during summer and as soon as they are started all the dust gathered inside them burn up 🙂
Have a great day!
It is another world out there.
I really need one of those maps orienteers use so I better know where I am while walking on the bog. Not that I was lost but I did try to find where the lake is and I know I was close today but I should most likely have walked a hundred meters or two (much the same in yards) by the creek before I walked out on the bog. I have watched maps here on the net but they don’t show the creeks especially well and then it’s impossible to know where one really is.
We didn’t get any fog as they had predicted and the sun shoved up much later than predicted too but there was no wind so it was quite nice anyway. Nova thought it would be a good idea to get down to the badgers den, twice but I managed to stop her in time :-)Badgers are nice animals but I doubt even they would like a dog visit while they were sleeping through the winter 🙂
I have no idea what scent those two dogs smelled when we went out on the bog but they started behaving crazy so I had to leash them. Not that it helped much because both still tried to follow the track after what ever it was that had passed 🙂 As soon as we had passed bridge number three to the other side again they started to behave normal again and chased each other all the way home again. The sun broke finally through the clouds when we were on our way home and it has kept on shining all day long.
We call these huge rocks for giant throws. Old folklore says it was giants who threw them when they heard the church bells sound, they really don’t like that sound. So far they’ve always missed all churches 🙂
Later we went out to the bog again but to where we usually walk. To be honest, I didn’t think the ice would carry me but it did, lots more trees here that shadows the ground and much less grass that weakens the ice. It is so nice out there, no sounds from the outside world reach us, it is a totally different world out there. Today I heard how the male Jay sounds when he wants to impress his female and I have to say it sounded very exotic. I didn’t understand what bird it was until I saw it. I thought they only screamed like they always do 🙂 The Swedish name for the Jay is Nut screamer 🙂
All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
I’ve done the laundry and it is now hanging outside to dry, doubt it will though since I hung it on the north side of the cottage and there’s no wind at all. Doesn’t matter as long as it get that smell before I bring it in to dry instead 🙂 It is time to give the dogs and cats their food and after that I might get something myself 🙂 By the way! I only have twenty percent space left here so I’ll soon move again to a new blog with much the same name. I’ll tell You several times before I leave this place and I’ll give You the address several times before I do too.
Have a great day!
Couldn’t be much better.
The day has been a perfect springwinter day. The night was pretty chilly and they day has been sunny and reasonable warm. The weak wind has done a good job making it feel much colder though so I’ve tried to stay out of reach for it most of the time. One good thing in springwinter is that the mud still is deep frozen during the warmer days so we are always pretty clean after our walks.
All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
Yesterday on my way home I thought I saw a crane but believed I must have seen wrong but the news says I did see right 🙂 It seems all birds now think spring has sprung and not far north from here several thousand trumpet swans are resting by a lake, still not a record number but chances are big they will break it. The first Doves have arrived to the village too, it looked like it was the Stock dove (Columba oenas, here in Sweden we call it Forest dove) and not the bigger Common wood-pigeon (Columba palumbus, here we call it Ring dove since it has a white ring around its neck). I could also hear and see the first Common Buzzard.
I don’t trust the birds though, they’ve been very wrong so many times before. Some weather institute is predicting a very warm spring here and I think it is the one that predicted that we were going to get a nasty cold winter this time 🙂 🙂 🙂 So I guess it’s best to make sure I have plenty of fire logs and wood prepared because they always seems to get it wrong 🙂 I wouldn’t complain if they were right for once and that we’ll ge a dry spring too, so all fly larvae (the biting and blood sucking ones), mosquito larvae and ticks we still have around will die. I just saw the first flies warming up on my south heading wall, even though they don’t bite I do wish the birds will take them all 🙂
I’ve always thought this looks like a big rib cage from a big animal but it is actually the rests of a juniper bush which was cut down long ago 🙂
I should have sown the first tomato plants now but I didn’t remember it until today and now I can’t remember where I put all the different seeds I have 🙂 A good thing with tomato seeds is that they seems to last forever, they just take slightly longer to germinate if they are several years old. Last year was a really good tomato year and that was still a rather crappy summer here, so I’m hoping for a warm spring and a really warm summer this year. I’m also waiting for the potatoes I’ve ordered, I’ve gotten the bill via e-mail but no signs of any potatoes yet.
I´ts time to take another walk with the dogs before they’ll have their dinner and the :sun will go down. Today the sun went up at 7:08 and it will go down at 5:30 this afternoon. The sun now stays up between 4 to 6 minutes longer every day now 🙂
Have a great day!
Here are four photos taken with the Nikon F 401
I can feel how it heats up the air.
I didn’t paint much at work today, a guy from the manufacturer of the paintbox came and would help us because we couldn’t get the machine to work in automatic mode. It has been put in manual for some time because some sensors got crazy when we painted big things. We put electricity in to powder paint and that sort of charged the things we painted too and all sensors got so confused with all that electricity that they didn’t know what to do.
But we don’t paint those big things any longer so we wanted the machine to work as it should but it just refused to do so. Turns out that some sensors had been so damaged, perhaps from the electricity that they no longer worked at all. We did however get the machine to stop painting when there was nothing to paint 🙂 He also explained how we could adjust the machine in ways we never have understood that we can. If we actually remember any of this next week things will be much easier.
The sun has been shining all day and it does heat up the air much more than one might think it could this time of year. We walked to the creek today but up-stream and continued far longer than we have before. There are some really swampy places on the way and old Hector could never pass those places without the risk of sinking down in mud, no such problems with Nova and Sune though, this time it was I who had some problems jumping far enough 🙂 We came to a wood bridge called bridge number three and crossed the creek but didn’t go especially far out on the bog, the ice isn’t especially strong after a day with sunshine.
Most of the so-called bridges demanded a much more brave man than me to cross 🙂
This one seemed extra tricky 🙂
I know I wasn’t far from the lake but I knew that we had been out for some time and I wasn’t sure for how much longer the sun would stay (I had no watch or phone with me) up so we turned before we could see the lake. It turned out that we had been out for two and a half hour when we came home again 🙂 We will have much the same weather all weekend, with cold nights and fairly warm and sunny days so perhaps we’ll take a try to reach the lame during the weekend again. I do hope we’ll get some morning fog so I can get some foggy bog photos 🙂
Bridge number three. The only one that felt almost safe to cross 🙂
It is time to make something to eat and perhaps I’ll start a fire in the stove. The cottage is still very warm from all the sunshine which has flown in to my home all day long.
We saw the bog and then we went back home.
I think this is one of the entrances to the badgers home. I could see that one of the entrances were used regularly.
Have a great day!
Four very grainy photos taken with the Edixa Reflex. That camera needs a lot of light to take grainy free photographs. All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
Not an eventful day.
Taken with my Rolleicord (and the coming three too). I do need more light when I take film photographs.
I have to admit that I have very little to write about again. Nothing much has happened at work and here at home very little happens at all 🙂 I do get a little daylight when I come home from work though and it isn’t many days left until the sun stays up long enough so I still can see it here at home when I come home after work.
This one has an odd shape for coming from the Rolleicord but the film hadn’t moved as it should so I cropped it some.
The days are sunny and fairly warm now and the nights are clear and fairly cold, perfect springwinter weather. Too bad I have to work when the weather is so nice. They say however that we will get that kind of weather during the weekend too and I do hope the mornings will be just as foggy as they have been all week. I have my small Kodak with me in the car every morning so with a bit of luck they’ll be good enough to show here when the film is developed.
These three are taken with the Hasselblad and twelve photo cassette.
The fire is burning in the stove and I’ll make some cocoa and a few cheese sandwiches. My favorite cheese for the moment is a dutch? one called Maasdamer. Not strong but full of flavors and it goes with anything, especially ham. Too bad I don’t have any ham at home 🙂 I do however have sliced pineapple preserved in its own juice so I’ll have that afterwards.
These three are also taken with the Hasselblad but with the 16 photos cassette.
Have a great day!
I follow the American primaries with interest.
Today have been just as exiting as watching paint dry but I did manage to get some photos on our walk after work! I did have to brighten them up a bit, except for the two last ones so You could see how dark it really was.
Crows.
Nothing much has happened news-wise so I’m following the American primaries as much as I can. Both sides are very interesting to be honest but the republican is really! interesting 🙂 I guess You all know that if we could vote for the American president here in Europe there would never be a republican president. Last election (according to a huge survey I can’t remember the name on) around 88% of the European population would have voted for Obama and here in Sweden I think it was over 95%. So even most of our most right wing people would vote for a president from the democratic party.
This is the last photo taken today.
In most parts of Europe we don’t mix politics and religion and that I think is what most scares us about American politics, right wing politics that is. I think most of us thinks it is nice that You have a faith but that doesn’t mean You have the right to force Your beliefs to control my life. Freedom of religion doesn’t mean the freedom of oppressing people with other believes. My personal thought is that religion should never rule the people of a country because power corrupts and who is to decide what interpretation of the religion is right?
Three from the Hasselblad with the photo cassette.
It is time to make something to eat and then I’ll most likely fall asleep in front of the tv.
Three with the 16 photo cassette.
The bog with lots of fog, who knows what lurks out there 🙂
Have a great day!
A double or triple exposure from the Rolleicord.
New “old” photos.
All snow is more or less gone here now but I always have the photos to remind me of how bad it can be 🙂 The four first are taken with the Hasselblad camera and the 12 photo film cassette.
I’ve just downloaded lots of film photos so no blog today but I’ll show a few samples of what I’ve taken with the old cameras.
This photo shows why the Hasselblad was and still is such an expensive camera. When I’ve taken the exact same photo with any other camera all one has been able to see was dark, grainy photos showing nothing but black 🙂
They’ve forgotten to scan one film though but that doesn’t matter as long as they have developed it and put it on the cd so I can watch it when it arrives, most likely tomorrow.
These three were taken with the same Hasselblad but with the 16 film cassette. They look more modern in their shape and allows me to take 16 photos instead of 12.
So welcome back tomorrow, who knows I might actually come up with something to write about, today my brain was empty so the photos saved me 🙂
These last three were taken with my Rolleicord.
I do like this one!
Have a great day!
It carried me but only barely.
I’ve always wondered why they have put ventilation on the lid to an old well? The well was the spare one since it always have water even during draughts but it is rusty and oily and taste rather bad.
We’ve had a rather sunny day so far even if the predictions this morning said cloudy all day 🙂 Well there are clouds up there but big gaps in between them so it has been rather nice taking walks today. Not much sunshine when we were out early in the morning though but warm and almost wind free so I liked it anyway.
All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
We walked out on the bog but I wasn’t sure the ice would carry me since it has been so much warmer at nights than that they thought it would be. It did carry me but I could hear how it started to crack beneath my feet. Well the water isn’t deep but deep enough to give me wet feet if the ice would have broken 🙂 So we didn’t go especially far since I could feel how the wind got warmer and suddenly it also started to snow a bit.
I turned on the tv when we came home and they showed cross-country skiing and nothing makes You sleep better than a boring cross-country ski competition. I think seven of the eight first skiers were Norwegian, at least as long as I coped to stay awake and no Swede even close to the leaders. Yesterday evening they showed the third heat of the Swedish parts of the Eurovision Song Contest. It wasn’t as bad as last week thank god but it would have been nice if they actually could find a singer who could hold a tone! I’m pretty sure that they do what they can to make sure we won’t even be close to win this year again, this competition is a rather expensive thing to hold.
The sun started to show a bit when we were out on the bog.
It is time to make something to eat, I’m thinking grilled sausages. I have my electric grill, it is too warm to start the fire stove right now. I’ll make a few for me and one for the dogs 🙂 I’m not sure how many sausages I have but if I have plenty the dogs will get one each 🙂 At the moment Nova is snoring quite loud close to the kitchen e´radiator and Sune less loud just by my feet. They refuse to go elsewhere when they have seen me taking out the grill from the kitchen cabinet 🙂
Have a great day!
You can see some snowflakes if You look at the old stable.
Springwinter day.
It looked rather nice for a while at least.
I think I would lie if I said we’re having another storm but the wind does blow rather hard today. It is well above 0C (32F) but the wind sort of destroy the feeling of warmer weather and the snow or/ and rain doesn’t help at all. Every now and again the clouds are so thin that the sun shines through but it really doesn’t help.
Normally one would say that up here we have four clearly divided seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter but we Swedes have names for in the between periods too. Now for instance we have something we call springwinter. It’s not really winter any longer but spring isn’t near to start either. Nights are usually cold and days warm. It is sunny springwinter days that is perfect for those first picnics of the year. We just find a sunny spot where the wind doesn’t reach. One really feel energized after doing that 🙂
A dead Juniper bush is a great place for lichens to grow.
Springwinter (in Swedish that’s one word so I write it that way in English too) is probably my favorite season, the birds sing, the sun stays up much longer and the first bulbs show and flower in the ground. Another season I like a lot is presummer, it isn’t spring any longer but really not summer either. Still rather cool nights (well it is never really warm here during nights, around 10-15C (50-59F) as warmest during summer nights) but days can almost be summer warm. There’s still no annoying flies disturbing but lots of “nice” insects flying around, the ones who doesn’t bit 🙂
Still a long time to presummer so I’ll have to enjoy this springwinter day as much as I can even if the weather really sucks 🙂 I think I’ll take a nap and then we’ll go out on a walk again in the falling snow.
Have a great day!
A rather nice day.
No sun today, this photo is a week old.
It has been a rather nice day so far, I worked in the neighbor factory for a few hours and when I came back to my normal work place very little was left to do so I left almost an hour early. It is odd how very nice that can feel even if I should have stopped working at noon anyway, that hour can feel like an entire day 🙂
I drove to the super market on my way home, the only reason I did so was because I wanted to buy more fire logs. I must say I was a bit surprised when they didn’t have any. Instead they had real fire wood in sacks, not big but very heavy. They don’t last as long as fire logs would but it sure smells nicer when the real wood burns and I think real wood burning gives away more heat than the logs. Compressed sawdust is perhaps a bit too dense so they burn more slowly.
It was quite warm when I came home and by warm I mean above 0C (32F) and the wind wasn’t too strong so it was quite nice to be honest. We walked down to the creek to see if they had cleaned up something and the horse guy had but not much. I’m still happy that I managed to walk there without falling or breaking a leg 🙂 It looks like they this time only cuts down birches and I could hear him working somewhere in the forest but not see him.
Both cats and dogs have eaten and now it’s my turn. I think I’ll do something easy like warm sandwiches, perhaps some ham and spotted sausages and lots of cheese. They show reruns of the old series Murder She Wrote so I’ll watch that while eating.
Have a great day!
I really couldn’t complain.
This and the next four photos are taken with the Kodak Retinette.
I’m feeling much better now even though I perhaps wouldn’t admit it in the early morning 🙂 Still tired though but that’s just normal.
Much less grainy when the light is good.
The day has been sort of slow. Every now and again it felt like the clock was speeding but then it suddenly stopped. Especially when I used the wrong powder paint when we were painting the last things for the day 🙂
Four taken with the Zeiss. It is a good camera but it too need better light.
It was the right color but the wrong gloss, so instead of being early I had to actually stay a few minutes longer than normal. I really couldn’t complain since it was my own fault 🙂
Four from the Nikon D70.
Tomorrow we’ll have a maintenance day and do things we normally don’t have the time for, all except for me who is going to the neighbor factory to do some painting there instead. I don’t have especially much I need to do with the paint box so I can just as well go to the neighbor factory instead.
The last four are taken with my Nikon D5100, the one I almost always use.
It is time to make something to eat and then fall asleep in front of the tv.
Have a great day!
It si far away but I can see it :-)
I can’t say I feel much better but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel today. It seems however that the cold now concentrates its strength towards my throat, I’ll fight back with honey and ginger mixed in luke warm tea because if one heat up honey too much it becomes just plain sugar to be honest, all the good bacteria in the honey dies if the temperatures rise too much.
I would have loved to have pineapple slices again today but I didn’t stop at the grocery store toi get any more so today I’ll have either preserved pears or peaches, not in their own juice though. Can’t remember if I’ve ever seen pears or peaches preserved in their own juice, it’s usually either syrup or water. The ones in water never taste especially nice I’m afraid so I tend to avoid those.
It will start to get slightly warmer now but that also means we’ll have the risk of getting snow. The predictions say snow for Thursday and since it is something I really don’t want more off I guess they’ll be right this time 🙂 Only 13 days left of February so at least I know a spring will come and I do hope it will be an early one so we don’t have to wait until the end of April this year.
It is time for that tea even if it will keep me awake all night, I doubt it though since I’m so tired that I could fall asleep right here in the kitchen in front of the laptop 🙂
Have a great day!
Just too much work in my condition :-)
Still old photos during the work week. Still a bit too dark to get any photos on our evening walk but it’s getting close now to have enough light.
I was absolutely sure I had a high fever when I woke up this morning at 4am. I didn’t wake up because of that though but the totally awful smell from the bathroom which filled the entire cottage. Both cats needed to go, one used the litter boc and the other the shower floor. In a way I was happy about the shower floor, he could have used a much worse place 🙂 Anyway, I knew I must be dying from a high fever.
Turns out I was just fine 🙂 Sort of annoying when I really didn’t feel like it. So off to work I went and even though the day passed very fast it still was a bit tough when feeling like death was waiting around the corner. Still I don’t feel I can stay at home if I don’t have a fever, that would feel like I was cheating sort of.
I would still have to get out today since I was out of toilet paper, I can live without food for a while but I can’t live without toilet paper 🙂 I also wanted some sliced pineapple, the kind which is preserved in its own juice. I could of course buy a fresh one but then I would have to peel it and it’s always hard to figure out when it is just enough ripe and if it is too ripe it’s just disgusting. When I would peel it the juice would stick to everything and after all I am close to death having this cold, even if I don’t have a fever, so that’s just too much work 🙂
It was rather cold last night so I was pretty sure I would have to scrape ice from the car windows but 10cm (4 inches) of snow all over the car had stopped ice from building up so I came very early to work today 🙂 Tonight will be down to -16C (3,2F) but now I don’t have any snow on the car so I guess the ice will be there tomorrow instead. If You don’t get a blog tomorrow please send someone to check if I’m frozen solid beside my car after trying to get rid of the ice while being this sick 🙂
The fire is burning in the stove and now I’m of to eat sliced pineapple in its own juice.
Have a great day!
Couldn’t be a much better morning.
View from my entrance.
It was cold during the night, almost -15C (5F) and the world had been colored almost totally white. What was even better was that we had a quite thick fog too and no wind at all, so our morning walk was rather pleasant and we were all painted with some frost in our hair. The sun did shine through the clouds after a while and has kept on shining more or less the entire day. It’ll be like this for a few days now, too bad I’ll be working all day.
This year my lime tree gave me three small limes and two days ago I harvested the first one, We all know that limes are pale yellow-greenish when we cut them open so guess if I got surprised when this first one was brightly orange 🙂 I’ve never heard of a lime having orange fruit pulp and it looked rather amazing to the green outside. It tasted as it should though but the taste was stronger than I had thought it would be since it doesn’t get especially much sunlight here during the winter. I’ll photograph the next one if it is as orange as this one.
We walked down to the creek later on and I didn’t know that the horse guy would be working today. I didn’t have any digital camera with me so when he and the horses suddenly walked out in front of me there just wasn’t time enough to adjust the camera to take a photo. We walked up-stream and I did think that I should save the last photo just in case we would be lucky again but how big would the chances be that I would be able to adjust the camera before he had went on elsewhere?
So I took that last photo on the roll and guess if I got annoyed when we met him again, standing still while cutting down a big tree stump, against the light so the last fog could be seen in the distance! It is one of those photos I’ll never take I’m afraid 🙂 It is like when one is out fishing and almost get that big fish and no one believes the story since there is no evidence 🙂
It is time to take a last walk before it gets dark I think. Tomorrow the sun will stay up until one minute after I’ve stopped working 🙂 It won’t be long now until I’ll have enough daylight to get some photographs when the dogs and I are out walking after work, I think a week or one and a half.
Have a great day!
Well, it is winter after all.
They predicted chances of sunshine today so I’m not the least surprised that we now have a snow storm passing by 🙂 It seems it has hit all over southern Sweden and that all weather sites missed to predict it 🙂 I think that we’ve gotten almost 5cm (2 inches since we went out for our morning walk just before eight this morning and it just keeps on falling.
It didn’t look that bad to be honest but it turned out that those blue clouds were filled with snow.
We walked to the little lake in the forest again, I would have liked to walk down to the creek but it is more or less impossible to walk there now and I’m not sure if the guy with the horses are out during the weekend. His horses don’t care about my dogs but I still don’t want to disturb them while they are working. It would not be a good thing is we accidentally scared them, horses are big You know 🙂
My Hasselblad camera is a so-called medium format camera, the film is bigger than those to a slr camera. Medium format cameras give totally square photos and one can only take twelve photos on each film roll. For a reason I don’t know it’s much more expensive to develop those films even if it is exactly the same film as the 135 films (but bigger then), so they use the same chemicals. That’s why I use my Hasselblad camera so seldom. Instead I’ve used the Zeiss more often, it use the same kind of film but instead of totally square photos it takes slightly less wide photos so I can get 16 photos from each roll of film. I hope You can follow what I mean 🙂
This was once a bike, probably used all the time back in the days.
The film to my Hasselblad is loaded in a special cassette which when it is loaded is attached to the camera body. One day I learned that they have made film cassettes which gives the same size on the negatives as on the Zeiss camera so I can take 16 photos with my Hasselblad too! I found one on our eBay (which we call Tradera) and won the auction fairly easy. I tried to get some info about it on the net but it seems medium format fanatics doesn’t like it, the negatives should be square and that’s it 🙂 I’m not a fanatic so I thought it was great and today I started using that cassette 🙂 I do prefer to take many photos for less money if I can 🙂
So anyway, it was quite pleasant when we started our walk, a weak wind and I could see rips in the sky showing a blue heaven. It changed quickly though and soon the snow started to fall. I have to admit that I didn’t notice it much as long as we were walking in the forest but on our way back it snowed so much sometimes that it was hard to see any longer distances. Still, the flakes are mostly small so it takes some time until it becomes especially much on the ground.
I normally take photos of this tree with its funguses but closer to the ground. I’m walking on the ridge around 15 meters (much the same in yards) up and could take a closer look at the top of the old tree. There are a few funguses growing even higher.
All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
Now I’ve started a fire in the stove and am about to make some cocoa. I have a headache, my throat is sore and I’m really tired. I do hope this is as worse as it will get but I doubt it 🙂
Have a great day!
This is the same tree as the previous photo but much closer to the ground 🙂
The oddest dream.
I think I must have had fever during the night because I woke up very sweaty and I had had the most odd dreams. I do remember the last one and I was going down a tine brook in a gigantic wooden ship. I’m not quite sure how that ship could go anywhere because from what I remember it was bigger than the brook. Anyway, I sat there on the ship fishing when I noticed people standing beside the brook laughed at me because I had the wrong kind of fishing rod 🙂
The always happy Sune.
I realised they were right so I turned around the big ship (all by myself, no one else where on the ship with me) and started to go upstream to get the right kind of fishing rod. When I did the ship started to sink but for some reason that didn’t bother me at all, I even could breathe under water and the world down there was much bigger, it was like an ocean. Suddenly I realise that I’m about to go straight into the painting box I have at work and the panic hit me when I realised that I most likely would break the painting guns.
The always seriously looking Nova 🙂 We did get a little snow too today.
Bertil has been under the weather for a while and have preferred to stay indoors almost all winter. Today he finally followed us on our walk 🙂
Can You see where they have cut down trees? It is where snow can be seen behind the trees.
I’m not sure how this huge ship would not break the entire box, which wasn’t bigger in the dream than in reality 🙂 but it seemed to fit rather well in the opening of the box Suddenly the view got clearer and I realised it was the robot who was painting and he bowed and just stepped to the side and then I woke up 🙂 All day I’ve been wondering how it works with powder paint and water but it did look just right in the dream 🙂 🙂 I do know where the robot comes from (no we don’t have any robots at work even if it would be a good thing). I watched a science program where they had robots who played soccer, the robot had to learn bu itself what the ball was and what it should so with it. Even I would have been fantastic compared to those robots 🙂 🙂
Yes they did cut down trees on the other side of the creek too and it was almost impossible to walk there at all. I didn’t realise that untilit was too late. On this side however the horse guy did the job. I was going to photograph the horses but then the guy decided to pee behind them and I thought that would be a bit too good photo 🙂
I’ve bought an accessory to my Hasselblad camera and I’ll tell You about it tomorrow, for now I’m so tired that I think I’ll fall asleep in front of the tv as soon as I sit down 🙂
Have a great day!
If it doesn’t get worse than that.
Still too dark after work to take any new photos, so You’ll see a mix of everything today.
Yesterday morning I was quite sure I wouldn’t be able to go to work today, I couldn’t speak and my throat was hurting too but off to work I went. Today I was back to normal, I do hope this was the flu I got this year, I would be lucky if it didn’t get any worse than that 🙂 We’re all very tired at work though and we all have more or less stuffed noses. Could be worse I guess 🙂
Almost all snow we got yesterday melted away and the snow falling now won’t give us any thicker layer. It is what we call kulsnö, pebble snow. Looks much like hail but are soft and that kind of snow fall never lasts for long. The temperature is dropping though and I might try to take a walk on the bog this weekend if it gets cold enough.
Four from the Zeiss.
I wonder how much trees they have cut down by the creek, I’ve heard the machines work all week when I’ve come home after work. So I’ll suspect the worst but hope for as good as possible 🙂
Eight from the digital Nikon D70.
The fire is burning in the stove and I’m about to make me something to eat, I’m not really hungry so it might be popcorn today too 🙂
Have a great day!
I rarely get nostalgic :-)
Some more from the Edixa Reflex.
I rarely go back the memory lane or get nostalgic, the past is the past and that’s it but yesterday it hit me right in the face. They played a song on the radio and I went back at least twenty years back in time. I lived in the city just beside a heavily trafficked road but every summer when the weather was sunny and hot the traffic died out pretty early in the evening. Those evenings I liked to sit on my balcony in the sunshine looking towards the ocean.
There was a tiny gap in the low hills that made it possible for me to see sailing boats passing by and it was as quiet that it could be in a big city. People either had their dinner or were still by the beach. In summer we have daylight almost all day so no one was ever in a rush home, especially if on had found a good spot. There was a high-rise building on the other side of the road and almost all doors to the balconies were open since they were in the shadows.
So I sat there and waited, waited for the one who obviously loved this song I heard every single sunny and warm evening over and over again (they must have put the player on repeat), every summer. They must have had speakers on the balcony because I could hear every word very well. I can’t say I like the song and never have but the first hot summer evening after moving to the countryside I truly missed it 🙂 This song and the singers had become a part of my life whether I liked it or not and every time they play it on the radio (not especially often to be honest) I just start smiling and sing along. The YouTube video below will play the song for You. I do miss Renée and Renato 🙂
Have a great day!
I wonder if he likes it?
Back to older photos again, it is still way too dark after work to get any photos. These are from the Edixa Reflex.
The influenza has hit my work place now, several are sick or has been. I think it is the swine flu but they say three different kinds are roaming around in the country. I had the swine flu last time it was here and therefore I should be safe from getting it again. It didn’t hit hard when it did though and it only lasted for a few days. Some people get so sick that they die when they get it, others, like me barely notice it.
Can’t say much has happened, it rained a lot during the day but it was still very bright outside. Not so when I drove home after work though. The sky was covered in dark grey clouds and they just refused to let any of the last light for the day pass through.
I will miss how it looked down by the creek.
I got a letter with an appointment for my annual vehicle inspection today. A bit early I think since I don’t have to do it until the last of September 🙂 It’s not as if I love going there so I always wait until the last day if possible. Strange that they send that one now since I during all the years I’ve gone to the same place never had my car inspected early in the year 🙂 I’ll make an appointment later myself.
I think the glass on the lens froze and that’s why it looks a bit darker in the middle of the photo.
It is time for something to eat but I’m not especially hungry, so I’ll pop some corn. Here in Sweden we say that we pop popcorn 🙂 I realised one day that it must sound rather strange in the ears of someone who speaks English 🙂 I’m not sure Sune ever have had popcorn so it’ll be interesting to see what he thinks of it. All my other dogs have always loved it.
Have a great day!
The birds believe spring has sprung.
We’ve had a rather nice day here, at least until around 1pm when the clouds finally put an end to the sun shining. It is still quite warm though and if one can stay out of winds range it still is quite nice out there. Rain will arrive in a few hours though and it will rain on and off the coming days.
Most of my laundry is hanging outside to dry and I hope it is before the rain starts, I think the relatively strong winds will help me with that but to be sure that I will have some dry clothes tomorrow morning I kept some of it wich are now drying in the bathroom.
There used to be a wonderful little glade where You can see the forest machine in this photo, it was easy to believe any folklore when standing there. Too bad that it is gone now.
The birds seem to think spring has sprung, the different Tits have sung for over a week now but today the Woodpeckers started too. I think it was the Green Woodpecker but it could have been the Black Woodpecker too. No drumroll from them yet though, I guess they won’t start with that until the days are much longer. I even saw what I think was spider webs this morning and I do hope the spiders will survive if the temperature drops drastically again.
The Swedish heats of the Eurovision Song Contest started yesterday and I have to say that the quality was as low as always 🙂 They put in one or two songs that we all know will go on to the big finale and the rest is just crap which they use to fill the program 🙂 This time they actually had a few singers who didn’t sing desperately out of tune 🙂 🙂 🙂 This competition is a rather expensive thing to do and we did win the big finale last year so we’ll host it this year. I guess they do what they can to make sure we won’t win this year too 🙂
It is time to go outside to see if the laundry is dry yet, the sky is getting darker and darker so I guess the rain soon will be here.
Have a great day!
Quiet.
The weather is sort of sad today. The sky is grey and we have the occasional wind gusts that shake the cottage but almost no wind in between, a bit hazy perhaps. The weather sort of gives the feeling that it has given up and really don’t know what it wants 🙂 It doesn’t even rain as they had predicted. Not even the birds sing as they have done a lot lately.
That doesn’t mean the morning walk was bad,on the contrary. Very few people were outside, the only ones I actually saw sat in cars driving away from the village. It’s rather warm too so I didn’t need to wear a sweater beneath the jacket, to be honest I think it would have been enough with a thick sweater or perhaps a sweater and a fleece jacket.
The Stack ants have used the wall of the old cottage as a part for their stack 🙂
It was a bit dark in the forest.
I wasn’t sure if they would be working in the forest today so we walked to the little lake where we were the last week. The dogs were following some tracks I couldn’t see and was very interested in an open field where I guess both moose, deer and wild hogs walk around when it is dark. It used to be a part of the forest but all trees must have been cut down a few years ago. The dead grass is so high there so I couldn’t see if they had planted new tree yet. The law says they must and very few down here in the southern parts of Sweden dares not to. It’s another thing further north where fewer people live, people from the bigger cities buy a piece of land, cuts down the trees and leave with the money.
Suddenly there’s a deciduous tree in the middle of the deep spruce forest. I guess it’s just a matter of time until they cut down all these trees too. All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
I could see open water in the lake but it is hard to see any water at all to be honest 🙂
We were out walking for almost an hour and a half and now all we want to do is to relax. The dogs sleep already and I might fall asleep in front of the tv, they show the world cup in slalom 🙂 I need a few cups of tea first though, I’ve been longing for that since we went out this morning 🙂
The tea is ready so I say good bye here.
Have a great day!
If I would think like a forest owner….
We’ve had a cold and sunny day here today, even after I had come home from work. Normally the sun is behind clouds when we get out on our walk but today it showed itself several times even if it was just for a few minutes at a time. No wind what so ever so I would have loved the weather anyway 🙂 It was so cold that in places where the sun couldn’t reach there still was frost on all the plants.
Tomorrow we’ll be back to warmer weather again (not much warmer though but above 0C (32F) ) and with it both rain and snow will fall they say. We’ll have some semi strong winds too but not as bad as it was last time. To be honest, I didn’t notice the wind much last time since it was stopped by both my neighbors cottage, garage and the forest, I actually barely could hear it most of the time.
We went down to the creek like always after work on Fridays and before we reached the forest I understood something was wrong, I could see something looking like a tractor and that’s never good news. I was right, they were cutting down trees just beside the path we walk on and most of the trees growing by the creek too. If I would think like a forest owner I would say it was about time they did something to that area, the trees grew so close together that they never would reach any bigger heights.
Never a good sign to see a working machine there, the only way it can come from is from the other side of the forest.
This is where I always take the creek photo, looks a bit different now.
Well, I’m not a forest owner so I mostly felt a bit sad to see what they were doing. Now it is not all bad because this will help all spring flowers that grew by that creek. In a year or so the ground will be covered with violets and white wood anemones. It will look amazing and I’m pretty sure the ferns will gain from this too, just imagine how wonderful it will look when all those ferns lean over the water! Still I’ll miss the shade the trees gave and I guess one of the fly free zones now are gone for years to come. Unfortunately this will not affect the tics at all and they are plenty down by the creek.
The fire is burning in the stove and it is time for me to make something to eat.
Have a great day!
They had also been up by the bog to cut down some trees the storms had destroyed. This is the tree stump on where the tiny spruce was growing. The tree stump is badly scarred and the tiny spruce is now gone. Most of the mossy tree funguses are still there though, at least on this side og the stump.
There really is no place for short chubby fingers.
Taken with the Minolta X300 (and the four after this one). I only got 15 photos from a roll of film which should give me 36 photos. I guess the camera froze like so many elderly does when the temperature drops that much.
We’ve had a wonderful sunny day here with very little wind as well. I got the chance to experience it some when I walked to and from the neighbor factory where I worked for a few hours today. It was the kind of day when it felt like the best thing to do was just to jump in the car and drive away but I couldn’t for two reasons.
The first reason was because too many hadn’t come to work today so they really needed another painter and the second reason was that I had to replace the two lights above the license plate on the tailgate. I knew both of them had broken already yesterday so the first thing I did when I came home was to bring all screwdrivers I have, the two tiny lightbulbs were already waiting in the car.
All photos I took with the Kodak Retinette became really grainy and I think it has to do with really bad light. Next time I’ll use it will be on a sunny day. These four and the four after are taken with the Kodak. All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
I had to have the flashlight in my mouth while I kept the tailgate in a hight where I easily could work. Naturally the screws were of a kind which I didn’t have a screwdriver for. So I talked with the handyman at work, he who fixes all problems we have with almost everything at work and he had the right tool. So as soon as I came back to work I started changing those lightbulbs.
I do like them anyway.
The first thing I do is to drop the tiny screw so it landed between the license plate and the tailgate. I could feel that it would be easy to pick up so I continued with the other one. It is amazing how hard those tiny bulbs sit and there’s really no space for short and chubby fingers 🙂 I did get it out after a while and when I was about to pick up the screw that I dropped I managed to push it down behind the license plate.
These four are taken with the Hasselblad camera out on the bog when I got a bit lost 🙂
This is the tree I recognised when I went out the next weekend and realised I was so close to almost walk the right way 🙂
The plate is made of plastic but I didn’t dare pulling too hard to get the screw out, so I gave up after a few minutes and called our handyman and asked how I would remove the plate since there were no visible screws to remove. He really tried to explain to me but in the end he had to come out and help me 🙂 🙂 Turns out those plastic plates can take a lot before they break and to be honest, it was stupidly easy to remove it 🙂
I had the Zeiss with me that time too. These four are taken with that camera.
So now I drive legally again, well almost because another lightbulb broke so now I need to go to the petrol station on my way home tomorrow and get a new one 🙂 It is time for something to eat and hot cocoa, the night is chilly!
These last four are taken with my Nikon D5100 last Sunday.
Have a great day!
I wish it could make up its mind.
This photo is taken with a Kodak Retinette 1B. I need to estimate the distance to what I want to photograph and this time I estimated a bit wrong. That camera does not like bad light at all! All standing photos are more manageable if You click on them.
I went out to the car this morning, expecting the wind to roar and howl but it was actually quite quiet. Naturally I then thought some well chosen things about the weather forecast companies and jumped in the car and drove away. I had to apologize in my thoughts to all those companies when I reached the open fields where the village ends, the car trembled in the wind 🙂
These four are taken with an Edixa Reflex, I think I’ve only shown photos from this camera once before when I first got it.
I think we’ve gotten enough rain to last us the year out by now, thankfully it will stop some time tonight, after that the temperature will drop below 0C (32F) and it will turn to snow instead. After that we might get some sunshine but cold temperatures and those will stay for a few days when warmer weather will come back again. I really think it could decide itself to stay either warm or cold for a longer period, this is just stupid.
These four are taken with the Zeiss. It is a much better camera than the two before this one but it doesn’t like low light especially much either.
Today actually passed rather quick and I’m surprised since Tuesdays usually are slower than cold molasses. Still nothing special happened but I didn’t get the chance to watch the clock especially much and that usually helps to make the day go by faster. I can now see almost daylight when I go out to the car after work, at least if the sky is clear and that always make life feel nicer after the long winter.
These four are taken with the Hasselblad camera. Do You remember when I drove to Falköping to see the doctor so he coulöd check that the toxic paint hadn’t done any damage to me? This was the only photo I took in Falköping (with this camera) because the weather was so bad.
I really need a new vacuum cleaner now. The one I have sound more than it does so to speak. I have one of those combined water and dust vacuum cleaners and now it sounds as if lots of dust finally reached the motor in it. It takes lots of dust though because it is pretty big so I hesitate every time I see new ones in the super market and so far the old one still hangs around.
The last four are taken with the Minolta X300.
The cottage by the Crane Lake, life goes on. 
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