Some or maybe all of my photos may be to dark to see for those of You that can´t tilt Your screen towards or away from You. I´m sorry about that but the morning was rather dark because of the fog.

It´s one of these mornings when it´s impossible to decide wether it´s cold or warm and how the day may progress. The night has been warmer than most summer nights, but now has the temperature dropped some and does that mean that it´s going to be a cold day?

The fog is laying thick around us and the humidity is so high that I can hear a constant dripping from the vegetation and our homes. But since there´s no wind it feels kind of pleasant to be out there walking. The only thing that can be heard is some cranes in a field nearby and some of the smaller birds waiting for me to fill the feeder.

My dogs are soaking wet after our walk and Teodor is quite dirty since he laid down and rolled on the gravel road when he saw us come back from the walk. Bertil however would never do such a thing, he knows he´s the king of the cottage.

I can feel the smell of smoke in my kitchen. I started a fire in the stove, not because it´s cold but to keep the high humidity outside the cottage. I have a cup of tea by the computer and when looking out the windows nothing moves out there. It feels like I might be the last person still on this planet.
Have a great day now!

By the way, do You know that the english word Window actually comes from the swedish language? Long ago we called windows for Vindöga (wind eye) here in Sweden. The english language borrowed that word and changed it to window. We swedes however stopped using that word and borrowed the word Fenster from the german language. We now days call windows for fönster :-)

I have to take back all evil thoughts I had about the landowner when the trees were cut down these last days. He was actually forced to do so by the Environmental protection agency because they are going to enlarge the natural reserve and has gotten the idea that only "natural" trees is going to be allowed to grow there. Sounds a bit crazy to be honest, but I think I know what they mean.

It´s always the same branch that gets autumn colors on this tree :-)

If we´re going back in time, 300-400 years, pines and spruces were very rare in southern Sweden. Mostly it was deciduous trees like oaks, beeches, birches, apples,cherries and rowans that grew here. But they needed mostly the oaks for ships and the others were cut down when they realized the use we could have of spruces and pines.

So they won´t do any replanting there now so that these "natural" trees gets the chance to come back. The rest of the natural reserve is filled with spruces and pines and I wonder if they´ll start to cut down them too? But I think that they will be allowed to stay since they already grows in a protected area and some rare birds needs them if they are going to stay here, like the grouse. So if You keep on reading my blog for at least thirty more years You might get the chance to see how it looked here many, many years ago :-) :-) :-)

This island is around 200 x 100 meters big (almost the same in yards). All spruces and pines are gone and only a few birches were allowed to stay.

This ant-stack is severely damaged now. We can only see a small part of the stack to be honest, most of it is placed below the ground. The whole society of ants might die after this, forest machines weigh a lot.

I love when they make natural reserves bigger, but it is usually a big loss for the land owner. Like all parts of the State they don´t like ton spend money and we have been able to read horrifying stories how they can act towards land owners. Normally they don´t even offer to pay close to what the land is worth and if the land owner dares to complain they start to threat that they´ll just take over the specific part they want and pay even less. Sometimes they can offer to swap a pice of land that they already own, but normally it´s a pice of land less worth that what they want from the land owner.

It can however help the land owner if they can get a newspaper interested in the story :-) Those times they claim that it´s only a big misunderstanding and gives the land owner what they would get if they had sold the land themselves :-) :-) How it is in this case though I have no idea. I guess this is the case in most countries, democratic or not.

This and the coming photos are taken in my neighbors part of the forest.

Now it´s time for a cup of tea and later it´s SciFi night on channel six :-)

Have a great day now!

Zoey & Me! It was different to put photos in the blog today! But I have had it like this before. Just click on add photos like normal. The square You´ll get has some text on the upper left side like
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We had frost once again when I woke up yesterday morning. I didn´t need to look at the thermometer to know that, I heard it when my dogs ran across my garden. The car was covered in thick ice, so I started the engine and the back window heater at the same time. Normally I don´t start that one until I drive away, because I only have two cars that might drive behind me. After that I only have forest and bogs.

The night was almost free from clouds yesterday night. This time of year that means frost here.

The fog laid as a thick layer over the ground.

Suddenly I saw that there came out smoke from the door mirrors and thought that they were on fire! But my brain slowly started to work and I realized that there was no possible way for them to start burning at all. After owning the car for two years I now know that I have electric heated door mirrors :-) :-) :-) Normally it´s the first thing I scrape the ice from on my car in the morning, but yesterday I forgot that and since I didn´t know I had that I also didn´t know that they started to become warm when I started the back window heater either :-) :-) :-)

Now it looks like this on my favorite place. 

Here´s the place where all the big, old tree stumps stood. Those that had mosses, lichens, mushrooms, lingonberry plants and new small spruces on them. No more of those photos will be taken here.

We went out to my favorite place in the forest when I had come home and as I had suspected they had cut down most of the trees there. They had saved some trees in the end of the peninsula, just beside the bog and I guess they are supposed to spread the pine and spruce seeds that will become the new trees there. They can do like that instead of planting new trees by hand if they want to.

Most of the thick green moss was placed on this side. They might survive that the trees has fallen on them, but the sun will burn them down next summer because they love to live in the shade. No more shade here for a long time I´m afraid.

The way home. I wonder it they will cut down these trees next year or if they are allowed to stay for a longer time.

They have cut down trees to make a kind of road to the next place.

The island that most probably got "harvested" today. You can see some logs on the ground and they are placed in a small creek so that the forest machine can drive over without to much problems.

I could also see where the next place were, because they had cut down trees so the machine could drive there without problems. It´s another island in the bog, close to the "mainland" so to speak. I didn´t care to go there today. I´ll save that disappointment for another day.

But we still have places that looks like in these photos.

But we still have some old forest where the mushrooms, moss, lichens and animals still can live undisturbed. It´s one of my neighbors that owns that part of the forest and he has says he won´t cut that down because he also wants some old trees left. It´s in that part I take most of my mushroom photos. I haven´t photographed half of the mushroom varieties that grows there :-) It´s also a part that the wild hogs likes now days, so I usually makes some noise before we take our walks there, especially in the early mornings.

And I still have my neighbors part of the forest to walk in :-)

I think this is an old stone age tomb. We have loads of them in this county.

I got a package yesterday from Mona that writes the blog Wsprsweetly Of Cottages. It was a book with one of my absolute favorite stories, "The wind in the willows". It´s a story about The Mole, the Rat and their adventures. If You haven´t read it, try to find it! Even if it is a children's story I think most adults would love it :-) We have very few flee markets over here and I haven´t seen it in any book shop either. But Mona promised to keep an eye open and get it to me if she found it.  I love it! The book is filled with really good pictures on almost every side! Thanks Mona!

The wind in the willows by Kenneth Graham. Published 1908.

It´s filled with pictures like this.

I feel that it´s time for a cup of tea and then I´ll continue to reed my wonderful little book :-)
Have a great day now!

We all have our favorite places to sleep and this is one of Teodors. On the soil in a big flower pot :-) :-)