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From one grey, misty morning just two weeks ago when the dew hung on the bare thorns, it was a short step to the first catkins; pollen factories that are the heralds of the spring for all hay fever sufferers. Leaf buds were not far behind, swelling up, bursting open and unfurling their delicate wet-green wings to dry in the spring sun. The first wild flowers this year were the snowdrops, but coltsfoot (tussilago in Swedish) was quick to follow, then the anemones, (Swedish blåsippor and vitsippor), and on their tail of course, the May flowers which children sell for children’s charity here in the streets. The dawn chorus swells as the birds get into the spirit of the season, starting to pair off. Finally, the sun draws people out of hibernation, to wrap up and take their first icecreams sitting against south-facing walls. The shops start to sell Påskris, twigs of birch to stand in water at home and decorate with coloured feathers and hanging eggs. … and now … why, it’s almost summer! ——————————————————————– I took all the pictures in the gallery over 9 days between 16th and 24th April 2011, with the exception of 8 & 9 (the beech leaves) which I took on 5th May last year.
There are several sites on the net with instructions. I used Photojojo’s
A walk on a snowy mountain In which we learn that TheSupercargo pants a lot while walking up-hill through snow, suffers from vertigo, is no sort of skier and falls over frequently. We also follow him in David Attenborough mode, stalking reindeer, and hear something more about his struggles to get this podcast to work. Music from “Beginning of the journey theme” on the album Soundtracks (The Snow Queen) by Razvan Veina. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Two Momento pictures belong to this series: Lone tree and snowdrift and Ski track whiteout. |
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wedish papers start running stories about signs of spring as soon as possible after Christmas (and sometimes even before). This year, like last, they were wrongfooted by the weather. The winter has dragged on and on, but suddenly one morning a couple of weeks back, the traditional signs of spring started to appear.
‘ve just learned how to make planets from 360º photo panoramas. This is my first successful effort. 
s the snow melts, things lost re-emerge. You’d think, the weather being the way it has been this past winter, people would keep their gloves or mittens on and notice if they drop one. Not so, it seems. I took all but two of these photos within a few streets of my home in Gothenburg, and all but one in the last few weeks.
ast week my wife and I took my sister and her husband on a skiing holiday to the Swedish mountains. We stayed at the ski-and-spa hotel at Storhogna in Jämtland (
