There was no sunrise to take pictures of this morning, but the sky was so beautiful anyway.

It has been and still is a wonderful day today. Sunshine and birdsong all day exept for the early morning, then it was only birdsong. The day just rushef through and I went home a bit early because they called to tell me that my pakages with the rubber carpet and the protection carpet, that goes under the rubber, to my pond had arrived today. Even if it not is going to be a big pond the pakages was really heavy. I wonder how much my friends rubber carpet weighed. Their pond is like a little lake :-) :-) I know that it arrived with a lorry and there were no room for anything else on it :-)

They have let out cattle in a new field today. My dogs are afraid of cows so they were nowhere near the fence.

But the big bull had an eye on us anyway :-)

I mowed the lawn too this afternoon. Since there were no wind to speak of the flies and mosquitos had a great time stabbing me on places I didn´t reach. The Horse flies has come too now, I felt that when they startied to bite me in the neck. But I don´t think that we´ll have so many of those this summer. It has been so dry since winter here that most wet areas has dried out. I live beside a bog so usually we have quite many of those kinds of flies, but dry springs usually helps us with that problem :-) If one has horses these flies are big problems, our laws says that horses (and cattle) must be outside all summer and when the horse flies comes they can suffer a lot from them. So I know people that lets their horses stay indoors during days and lets them outside during nights instead. Not legal but better for the horses I think.

This is the spot I´ve chosen to have the pond at. In front You can see a small Katsura. The frost took all leavs so it looks rather naked as it is now. In the back to the left there grows a rose, Rosa multiflora a japanese wild rose. This one spreads so much in The US that it´s forbidden to plant in some states and if one finds it in the nature it must be killed. here though the klimat makes it so much friendlier. The flowers are small but there are loads of them. You´ll se in a couple of weeks when my are in bloom. In the back to the right there is a big apple tree.

All irises are beautiful I think, but this one isn´t as beautiful like the one I showed yesterday.

A while ago I started to wonder about the clouds in heaven. How come do they exist like they do. I know about dust gathering small water droplets around them, but why does they become a cloud? Why not just a thick fog around the planet? What keeps them together so to speak? Is it some kind of gravity doing something?

Another thing I´ve been wondering about is the asteroid belt out in space. They say that planets was made of asteroids that collided and that gravity sort og drew other aseroids to them. The bigger they became, the stronger gravity became and more asteroids fell on the new planet. In space these asteroids collide all the time, but they don´t make a new planet, why don´t they? Have gravity forsacen them :-) I know that this has nothing to do with the rest of my blog, but it sort of just came up in my head when I looked out the window right now :-)

How Teodor can find it comfortable to sleep like this I don´t understand :-) He makes a mess on the shelf too :-)

Well I think I have time for a cup of tea on my kitchen stairs before the mosquitos find me.
Have a great day now!