It wasn´t the brightest of mornings today, not the warmest either but perfect for a morning walk with my dogs and Bertil the cat.

I woke up at five am this morning. I refused to get up even if it was impossible to fall asleep again. It´s kind of nice just lie there listening to the sounds around me. Old Erna slightly snoring, Hector sighing, because he knew I was awake and he really wanted to start the day :-) Orvar calmly breathing and the wind howling outside.

The natural pond still has some water so there might be some dragonflies next year.

A group of ravens (six, probably two parents and four yopunglings) flew over my head on the way home. Naturally the camera took its time to get started so I only cought on of them with my camera.

The forest hindered most of the wind, so it was quite pleasant to take our morning walk. I heard cranes shouting for a short time and saw them up in the air to far away to get a picture of them. Most of them has left us now, but there will surly come some late arrivals yet for some time. I also saw a family of ravens flying over me. They had a great time playing in the wind and for once no smaller birds tried to attack them :-)

I think this is as close that I get to the sun today :-)

The comming pictures comes from our afternoon walk yesterday. We walked to an island in the bog to where I know the safe way. Bogs can be a dangerous place to walk on if not knowing the safe ways.

We´ve had a rather pleasant autumn this far, but now temperatures will drop rather much. In a couple of days it´ll be only eleven degrees here ( fiftytwo F) so I bought rather a lot of fire logs to my stove at the same time I bought my rubber boots. So I wount have to start my electric radiators for yet a month I think. If I have a fire in the stove for a couple of hours my little cottage will be warm enough for twenty four hours :-)

The ferns really don´t get autumn colors, they sort of just looses all colors at once.

I wonder what lives down here. Two holes leads down into the ground. Perhaps a forest mouse family or a bank vole family lives here?

All the small birches on the bog has gotten yellow.

Well it´s time to vacuuming the floors again. I can´t for my life understand how much sand those dog of mine gets inside every day. Not to forget that old Erna sheds her fur again!! I don´t know how many times they have done that this year, but I´ve heard many dogowners saying the same thing, so I´m not allone with this at least :-) After that there will be a fire in the stove :-9

Have a great day now!

Bertil, the cat that behaves like a dog :-) He never misses to follow us on our walks.