Photo essay with pictures of some of the most common and loved Swedish signs of spring – everything from coltsfoot to decorated birch twigs.
Pharaoh of the docks. A graffiti artist with vision has turned the top of this yellow concrete piling into a suspicious looking Pharaoh.
Photograph of a cluster of blue anemones aka Anemone hepatica or Anemone nobilis pushing through oakleaf litter.
Crocus macro: A macro image of the patterned petal of a crocus. A landing strip for pollinating insects perhaps. Photo taken in the Botanical Gardens.
As 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.
Butterfly. Can you see it? A very bent latch on an old metal door. In the low winter sun it pairs with the shadow it casts and forms … a butterfly!
Whiteout – After the fine weather of my previous photo, a day of snowfall and the ski track is all but invisible in the whiteout.
Gallery of photographs showing sun on snow and snow on snow in the Swedish mountains (fjällen).
A lone tree and a snowdrift on the ski-trail at Storhogna, Jämtland. Looking west towards Norway. A photo from a trip celebrating my sister’s 50th birthday.
Is this not a pipe? A photo of a well-used pipe in the detrius by the side of a post-winter Swedish road. For René Magritte.