The flower of the Canada thistle (Cirisum arvense) is really beautiful. It´s a shame the rest of the plant is so hostile :-)

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It´s like walking in a steam bath outside today. It´s not the cool nice day I was hoping for at all. The rain added to that made it a bit awful to be honest. The flies has started to be a bit aggressive too so thunder might be closing in as they promised in the weather forcast.

The Meadow sweet (Filipendula ulmaria) grows everywhere here near to the bog. Smells delicious and can be used as a head ace remedy. Put some flowers in hot water or tea and keep it there for some minutes. Belive me it helps!

Yesterday I saw the movie "A prairie home companion" and it was a nice movie, Perhaps not the best I´ve ever seen, but nice. It made me remember when we had radio shows like that over here. The one I remember was called "The breakfast club" and an over exited show host had a very similar show as the one in the movie, but without the commersials. We didn´t have commersial radio until twenty years ago here in Sweden.

These comming three pictures shows species of different verbascums (Mulleins) The last one can be over 2,5 meters high (6,6 feet). They like it here and behave some what like weeds :-)

As I remember it was a very popular radio show. They had everything from our most popular stars to newcommers. The show host was also one of our most popular filmstars. But in Sweden if a program is popular for a longer time, they stop sending it. It´s like they think as if it´s popular there must be something wrong with it :-) It´s the same with tv-programs.

A species of what we call Wolf spider. The don´t have webbs, but runs to catch their food. It sits on a leaf from a Geranium zonale (one of the parents to our common geraniums. I´ll show You pictures of the flowers in early autumn I think).

Chinese globeflower.

Chinese globeflower.

But if the program is boring and no one listenes to it, it can continue for years after years :-) I´ve always wondered about that way of thinking. I only know one radio program that they actully saved after protest from listeners here in Sweden. But I don´t think we ever will get back the programs with live audience like the one in the mivie or our breakfast club. They were proably too popular :-) Well, the clouds looks like they will start arguing with each other, so I better stop for today.

Have a great day now, for me it´s only two more workingdays to vacation :-)