View from the north towards Alba Nova (Observatory Dome)

Dog walk at the Northern Animal Park (a royal hunting park several hundred years ago)

 

 

Here come two kettle-drum horses (part of mounted main guard music corps)

 

"Fisk art or pet" It's actually just one word and means "Fisherman's croft" Yes, it says so on the wall of the ski jump tower.

 

And this is what it looked like in 1902. Both the large and the small slopes are now in severe disrepair, the last time any one jumped here was in 2007. Nowadays, the facility functions as a conference center.

 

View from the ski jump over The Barn Bay towards The Great Shadow

 

Here sits, as always, an old acquaintance. "Lilac Lily" has crocheted a small heart for the little dog statue

 

The city's character birds

 

We take a bike ride Frescati tour & retour

 

If the enemy comes from the north, there will be a stop at Frescati because there are invincible tank obstacles ("concrete pianos", part of Stockholm's inner main defense line 1942

 

View west towards Norrtull (Northern Customs, where farmers long ago had to pay customs for their goods)

 

Oops! A hidey-hole I believe.

 

Abandoned. Another rubbish heap in the nature close to the city. Romanian beggars probably.

 

Ventilation tower for the Northern Link (tunnel) built of wood

 

From the other side of the hill we can see the hidey-hole up there

 

2020-05-05Here sleeps one of the citizens of the welfare society.

2020-05-06 Coffee break on a uprooted tree in the Haga Park (the root is shown from a different angle among the pictures of the month of April)

 

An old acquaintance. Formerly ill and injured. Now OK.

 

What about social distancing in corona times?

2020-05-07
Small bright yellow and bright red creatures in Lill-Jans forest.
Visits from outer space?

 

We were supposed to have a serious conversation about some misfortune

 

A little joy in misery - a crossword puzzle

 

2020-05-08The Owl Bay Well dog park offers, among other things, a jump-friendly log

 

 

 

 

After two weeks at the Swedish Dog Flight School (SDFS), Cayenne has now made her first solo flight.

 

2020-05-09Spring lunch on Valhalla Road

 

 

There are politicians who claim that some people themselves have chosen to live in misery. Believes The Devil.

 

2020-05-10Why must a poor dog pose in such weird ways?

2020-05-11

Will he never get tired of dog photography?

Nope, he doesn't get tired.

 

Flying dog training in progress. Now we are in advanced low-flying. If you are going to make a sharp turn, you fold out one ear.

 

2020-05-14Wild nature 15 minutes walk from central Stockholm

It seems to be a cone year this year

 

Cayenne is scouting something

 

Well then, it's our old friend the buck

 

 

2020-05-15Morning on the Stablemasters Promontory

 

The swans have cygnets and are out sightseeing

 

2020-05-16Calling in exercise at Cowhouse Field

 

 

2020-05-17The Hop Garden, 7-eleven, sunshine

 

 

Some latte foam is never wrong

 

 

Damned gulls, especially in corona times

2020-05-18Another hidey-hole

 

"Miss you"
I wonder: Who is missing?

 

Hugs from family Lund at Curves (female gym)

 

Stockholm character bird?

 

2020-05-19Aren't you finished grubbing yet so one can come and help with the pre-washing?

 

2020-05-20Lidingö bridge number 6 (?) under construction. With its 750 meters, the Little Lidingö Bridge will be one of Sweden's longest railway bridges and significantly wider than the current bridge. It will have multi-lane pedestrian and cycle paths for better accessibility and safety and double tracks for more frequent trips with the Lidingö Line. The "old new Lidingö Bridge" remains and will be in operation until the Little Lidingö Bridge is completed in 2022. "

 

 

 

Last laundry before departure to The Deep Forests

 

2020-05-22Graffiti bastards are also found in The Deep Forests

After the forest walk

 

I found this rope stump in my boathouse. Memory from the sailing trip from London to Spain with the Falcon. Every cadet and passenger was expected to accomplish such a sailor's artwork while we were at sea. The infantry officer taught the navy cadets how to do it.

 

2020-05-25Manufacturing roundwood

 

Replenishing the wood supply

 

2020-05-26Something extremely fragrant apparently hides under the spruce

 

On the old pedestrian and bicycle path

 

 

2020-05-28There are plenty of reckless people

 

I let all my dandelions be .... (Carl Anton, see also further up)

 

Somewhere over there was our summer house 80 years ago before it was dismantled and moved out into the Deep Forests

 

2020-05-29Activity in the flycatcher nest.

2020-05-31The photo that received 500 likes on Facebook

 

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Flycatcher nest No. 2