Easter Flowers back and forth & up and down!
I will be back soon with new photos!
21
Apr
11
Happy Easter
Häckeberga sjö och slott is all year around a lovely place to visit, but the rare occations when ice cover the lake and it is possible to walk on it pople really go there to skate, play hocky, fish and ski.
I have avoided placese with a lot of people when photographing this lovely lake,
just to show the solitude around the castle.
Look at my photos to see a very special place in South of Sweden.
The main entrance Häckeberga Castle
Häckeberga slott 1873 Seen from the lake.
Sun on the gable wall. From the ice. 
Island in the lake
Beech forest along the edge of Lake Häckeberga
Two friends taking photo of me as I take photo of them
Lichen
Island in the lake just before sunset
People on the ice and snow in the air and sunset at the sky.
Sunset above Häckeberga
02
May
10
Birds from a cold winter
These are not pro-photos, just photos caught by walking alon Ätran in the center of Falkenberg
and only for my amusement.
This little one sang so loud high above me and I’m told it is a:
Nuthatch – Nötväcka – Sitta europaea
Acrobatic flight of a hooded crow
Crows in different poses
One Corvus corone corone two Corvus corone cornix, i.e. a jackdawand two crows
Female mandarin duck – Aix galereiculata
Mr Mallard
Just before touch-down
White-throated Dipper – Cinclus cinclus
White-throated Dipper
Mediterranean Gull – Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Coot and Audouin’s Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii
Great Cormorant in blue shadows
Phalacrocorax carbo
Juvenile Herring Gull – Larus argentatus
Canada Goose – Branta canadensis
Whooper Swans – Cygnus cygnus
01
May
10
Wintermemories from Ätran
Memories from the river Ätran in January and February of 2010.
The coldest and most snowy winter we have had in decades.
Natures own creations of frost and water!
Do you see the birds head in ice?
Looks a little like a dolphin to me
Snow & ice-drops on rocks
More frozen dropps
Ice-Eoraptor, A big bird-like dinosaur
Cold and frozen fish!
Sculptured by frost & the river
Ice-cover
Rings of frost
Winter decorations
31
Dec
09
Happy new year 2010
I wish you all a Happy New Year 2010 with a small revew of 2009!
January
February
Mars
April
May
June
July
Agust
September
October
November
December
First Snow of December
19
Dec
09
December in Falkenberg
Some photos from nature and some from our small town!
December has been a month of a lot of frost and cold weather.
Glittering grass
Ready for the Christmas ham. Droplets and ice crystals on borecole
Lovely frozen leafs.
Struck by a sunbeam.
Can you see the Ice face ?
Ice-crystalls on green weed.
Natural lace
Anglehair ice or hair ice!
This is what the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute are telling us about the hair ice.
Hair-ice is an unusual phenomenon which is formed when moisture penetrates out of the water-
soaked pieces of wood at temperatures just below zero degrees.Piece of wood may not be frozen
while the ambient air temperature should be slightly below zero. Water emitted from the wood
through small pores can thenfreeze and grow from the inside so that the hairs grow longer and longer.
It is not entirely pure rainwater, but it contains some substances, possibly from the bacterium
Pseudomonas syringae, from the rotting wood that affect the ice-structure.
Hard frost and sunshine are lovely together.
Winter had decorated the town this day.
A star in a puddle.
In spite of the frost, I found these on December 13:th – The Lucia Day.
A cold leaf in a sunbeam.
Now these belong to December and Christmas.
Strange shapede hair ice!
To me it looks like a fable-animal.
Lets take a look at Falkenberg by night a cold and windy evening.
Here is a ghost cyclist.
Nygatan at half past six a cold and windy night.
Trees around the Town Hall Square.
Tinkerbell throwing stardust at Falkenberg.
And here is Tinkerbell.
Finally on December 17th we got snow. Not much, but it is snow!
Finally I wish you all
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Falkenberg is a very small town and here we need a bicycle to get around,
local busses goes abut 4 times a day.
there is about a mile to the pier and on a windy day it takes between 30 – 45 minuts to get there
Westnorthwest wind give but small waves
but some are worth to take a shot at
here Poseidon shows he is angry
To get out of the wind I seek shelter in town by the river Aetran where we find
The skulpture Unit 1 & 2 by the artist Pål Svensson
The dark part is created by water floting over it.
and the old railroad bridge being dismantling
this is how it is done
And a view across the river 5 minutes walk from the town center
A little father upstream I found a mute swan
He was so pretty – one more photo of him
In a small park close to Aetran I found these Trift (Armeria maritima) now in October
Chrysantemum and a bee from the same park
This day I continued to the enclosure with pigs, here is the mother-pig
One of the piglets (she has 10)
and two more
Let’s continue to the bridge across Aetran and look toward town
and we can see the open-air theatre from the back.
On the othe side there was lovely light and colours at the path
Blackberry leafs are lovely now
So is grass in the sun with the dark water as background
The small pond – use to be a clay pit – with reflections
Anothe angle of the pond
In a puddle I found a pretty maple leaf floating on the surface
some red balls floating in Aetran
The openair theatre from another point
and one closer at the same theatre
A mallard applauding for being photographed
A branch of an ash-tree
Disarray dandelion
And I meet three jackdaws on the path.
Whenever I can I take Storgatan when going to and from the town,
I love these old houses along this street
No 9
No 9 B
at home I looked at the asphaltplane in our “backyard”, there was a puddle of water.
I almost always bring the camera when I go for a walk, just to see what I find.
Now you can go with me on a walk and see my findings in my neighborhood
These hoverflies are pretty.
and so are dandelions
some more weed, a Epilobium hirsutum is lovely too
Well a small feater is worth a photo
And some Lingonberry among grass and moss
Empty shell and leaves in an oaktree
And an evening star also know as Oenothera biennis
A softball or dandelion dressed in white
A sunlit mapleleaf is a joy to look at too
A look at the alotmentgardens is always a joy – here is a rudbeckia
And a white cosmos
Sometime one is lucky and the sun is shining perfectly at a Astrantia
The lawn behind the house has funny things too,
like this little funguswith red hat
A small family of four golden ones
this browne fungus look like a bowl
Fungus Sopp could be a porcini in Swedish “karljohan svamp”
Someone has taken a bite or two of this one
And here are some we all know the amanita
And some big ones
Flies like fungi too
Midland hawthorneberries are lovely in the sun
some singled out
Sunshine on yellow leafs and weed are lovely
An old tree stump with funny patterns and colours
Aronia berries after rain
And aronia berries in the sun
At my balcony window a green lacewing is trying to find shelter from the rain
I do hope you too enjoyed the walk.
Have a lovely weekend.
04
Oct
09
Besøg i Falkenberg Juli 2009.
This post is dedicated to my sister on her birthday – Thats why the text is in Danish
Kære Anne riktigt hjertligt tillykke med fødselsdagen.
Hvis det nu skulle blive regnvejr så kan du kikke lidt på alla billederne med solskin fra juli.
Jeg skriver ikke så mange kommentarer for jag tro du kan huske det meste.
Psyke kommer til Falkenberg
Shoppande tuourister
Koret i Falkenbergs Kirke
Falkenbergskonstneren Tore Hebys krucifix
Aetran – af konstneren Leo Janis-Brieditis omgivet af sæbebobler
Tourister i Falkenberg
Bobler i fontænen
Prædikestolen i St Laurentii kirke
Kirsebær i dörslaget
Carl Eriks frukostgæst
Pause ombord
Lodsen på arbejde
Delikatesser serveret i cockpit
Fugleflukt
Nat i gästehavnen
Lys fra siloen
Danish tourists on Skrea beach
Den har næsten landet
En lille bølge
Den ser også på mig
Lige over mig
Touristinformation på Skrea strand
A pretty lady having fun
Rosa Timjan (Thymus serpyllum) og en humlebi
Hvid Timjan (Thymus serpyllum)
Anne – Koncentreret før afgang
Kaptajn Carl Erik forbereder afgang
Avgang forberedes
Kaptajn C E styrer Psyke ud fra kajen
Goodby Falkenberg
Et skub for avgang
Ude i Aetran
På kurs mod Kattegatt
Psyke på vej mod nye äventyr
Psykes akter og en höj kran
Her kommer lidt billeder jeg tog på vejen hjem:
En edderfugl
Et par sko på en lampe
Et gammelt hus på hjørnet af Farverstrædet
Rose i skygge
Snerler
Til sidst en lille skinnende grøn bille,
sammen med et håb om at I også får nogle gode minner af min billeder.
Tillykke Anne !
The next stop was at the Beacon fire mountain in Härnösand.
From the belvedere ia a magnificen view of the town.
On the same mountain we saw this, here many a down hill race have started
And a windmill
Amazing views over Härnösand from the mountain top, this is the house of the regional archives.
Haze and shadow of a cloud above Härnösand
E4 and lots of spruce-forest from Vårdkaseberget
Högakustenbro is visible from the mountain.
Aprox half of Härnösand
Another part of Härnösand
Toward E4 from the Beacon fire mountain
the journey continued and this is a view south of Ödeshög toward west and Lake Vättern
Car-window view at Vättern
and a view of lake Vättern and the island Visingsö
An old Royal ruin – Brahehus Castle
View of Vättern from the car
Island Visingsö in Vättern across a golden field
And this is Gränna the Candy-Cane-Town. A view at lake Vättern from a narrow street in Gränna
Another narrow and steep street at Gränna
And this of course: Candy canes city – children and Tooth-trolls Paradise
And Dalar hästar (horses) at horribly prizes
Some more for the Tooth-trolls
Last view at Vättern from the car
Finally a map roughly showing the journey.
