Stefans' church
Another roof view
022-06-05 on Stockholms roadstead. Baltops 2022.
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy.
Cafe at the Main Square in Old Town
Treasures from the attic store
Branta leucopsis - White-cheeked goose
Back to The Deep Woods where I am The Phantom and Cayenne is Devil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom
In the middle of the forest, 5 kilometers from the nearest golf course
Jumping for joy
Summer's first load from the library
Cayenne makes her way through the marsh tea and the bog bilberry on the great marsh.
View to the north over "our" lake Skramsen
A beautiful old boathouse in disrepair
Kerstin sits dachshund guard while our breader Pernilla shows Cayenne in the ring.
Dog show in Leksand 2022-06-18.
Resilient ladies
Excellent, Certificate Qualified, Best Veteran
The water in the lake is clean and drinkable, but the water from the cold spring tastes even better
No, it's not a Rhodesian Ridgeback lying there.
It's a fleece blanket.
Linnaea borealis, named after C v Linné
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus
The large clearing starts greening up
Just for the colours
A pair of squirrels have established themselves under the storehouse roof. They have at least 6 cubs.
Click here for a fascinating nature reportage.
Eagerly searching for daisies ("priest collars") for the midsummer bouquet
You're not going to go away by bus, are you?
Coffee calls for punch and strawberry cream cake
On this old jetty, Lars has sat many, many times scrubbing potatoes. Now it happens for the last time. A new jetty will see the light of the day.
Click here for an exciting construction report.
With enormous efforts, we have raised the maypole
Buffet (sweden: walking table) is applied at the midsummer lunch
Later it's time to barbecue while having traditional barbecue whiskey
Towards evening, the cottage neighbors appear
Whoops, a baby squirrel is clinging to the wall of the store house
The infamous squirrel killer steps out to defend the humans
But the baby squirrels have learned to stay away
A woodpecker has met his fate here.
In rainy weather, squirrel scouting can be conducted from the store house stairs
The chaffinch is particularly familiar
Late in the evening mosquitoes and gnats come, but then we take shelter in the gazebo
Another one of those breathtakingly beautiful sunsets
The black and white flycatchers have had babies
New jetty underway.
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