I have gotten the wrong program for my mobile internet connection, so suddenly I have no internet (it comes and goes, but for how long this will hold I have no idea). I´m going to get the right one if I drive to the closest Telia store (the company I bought the computer from) to get it. But I won´t drive that far before my breaks are fixed :-) So if I just disappere You know why. The breaks will be fixed next Tuesday, so perhaps on Wednesday I´ll have my computer fixed too.

I could see several of these anvil-shaped clouds passing through yesterday. They normally means thunder, but they never came close.

Around twenty minutes after the sun had risen over the horizon it disappeared behind the thick dark grey clouds that fills the sky at the moment. The dew dripped from the roofs as we started our morning walk. Normally we take the same route every morning because I pick up my morning newspaper and yesterdays mail on our way home. But it is boring to do so in the long run, so this morning I fetched the paper before walking away.

Angelica.

Canadian Goldenrod. I love the color on thios one just before the buds open up. Otherwise it´s a weed I don´t want, but have, in my garden too.

A Crane passing over us towards the lake.

We headed down towards the creek and I should have worn my rubber boots, I know so well how high and wet the grass and bushes are down there. But I chose to wear my normal shoes and now my toes looks like raisins :-) Cranes and gees flew over our heads as we came to close to them and deer ran away long before we even got close. Yesterday we saw a black fox when we were out walking and I think I´ve never seen that before.

It was really dark here in the forest. The only way I could take photo´s was by using night time settings on my camera.

As long as we walked by the open fields I could hear Lorries passing on the big road nearby. This is the last week of vacation for most people, but some of us are lucky enough to have one or two weeks left :-) When we came to the creek a big heron lifted and flew away and I have to say it scared me quite a bit :-) :-) Unfortunally I didn´t get the chance to take a photo of it.

All the small creeks are filled with water now and as You can see this one has a brownish color. It´s rust because the grounds here contains lots of iron.

I was prepared with my mosquito hat today. We had walked in to the bog yesterday evening and there I realised that not all flies are gone :-) But this was another kind, it did fly around my head but had no intentions to land on my ears to take a closer look. They were also much easier to scare away. But they are still annoying so I brought the old hat with me just in case.

I use the word bridge for this in lack of a better word :-) I don´t dare walking on either of the two bridges we have here, rotten is a kind word for the state they are in :-)

Almost at home again.

It was so dark when we entered the forest so I had to adjust my camera for night photography. I´ve never been to a rainforest but I guess it would feel much like walking by the creek this morning, except that it should be much warmer in a rainforest. It was so quiet there, now and again I could hear the sound of birds lifting off from tree branches and deer jumping away deeper in to the forest.

We saw this Lemmon butterfly yesterday when we were going out to the bog. This is probably a mail and if it had had the kindness to open up its wings You would have seen that it was lemon yellow.

This is my absolute favourite amongst butterflies. We call it Golden wing and it is really small.

The only sunflower I can find in the neighbourhood and it is far away from any feeder.

These last days of rain had risen the water level quite much since the last time we were there. I tried to look for fish in the water but I seldom see any. That´s another difference from a rainforest creek. Most of our aquarium fishes come from small creeks in the rainforests.

Finger mushrooms.

We turned homewards again when we came to one of the gravel roads crossing the creek. They had started to clean out the ditches there early in spring, but nothing had happened there since then. We followed the road home and the closer we came the less flies followed us. I guess it´s time for them to lay their eggs and then they stay close to water or moist grounds.

Now my dogs and cats are spread all over the cottage. The old lady Erna sleeps on her favourite green blanket in the living room. Bertil sleeps in there too but in the corner of the couch. Orvar sleeps just upstairs from the kitchen, just besides the stairs so I can´t miss him if I want to go up there. Hector has jumped up on my bed, probably filled it up with sand and gravel like he always does. Teodor, well he´s probably sleeping hidden somewhere, perhaps in a paper bag, he likes that.

I won´t get any pumpkins this year, but it lives anyway :-)

Now it´s time for a cup of tea and then I´ll look at the morning news.

Have a great day now!