Category: June

Can anyone join this club?

Can anyone join this club?

A sibling to one of yesterday’s moorhen chick trying to join a perch of black-headed gulls on a birch trunk leaning over Slättadam. Can anyone join this club? I suspect the answer is: No! … Continue readingCan anyone join this club?

Curious

Exploring

A moorhen chick exploring the shoreline of Slättadam. (Common moorhen = Rörhöna – Gallinula chloropus.) I haven’t seen moorhens on Slättadam before, suddenly there’s a mother with a clutch of six chicks – fluffy balls with huge feet. … Continue readingExploring

Lost balloon

Lost balloon

After a children’s party in the atrium, perhaps, a lost balloon is trapped by the glass ceiling.
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Lichen and striations

Lichen and striations

A dark green lichen has colonised the ice-age striations in this outcrop of granite. … Continue readingLichen and striations

Photobooth 2

Photobooth

A kind of photobooth – in a large greenhouse, a small room made of birch branches and hung with streamers of black and white contact prints. An art installation by one of the graduating students of HDK (Högskolan för design och konsthantverk – School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg: “I left my heart in so many places” by Freda Gregemar. … Continue readingPhotobooth

Lost comb

Lost comb

A lost comb on a path at the Skallgrusbank in Silviks natturreservat. The little out-of-focus yellow flower is a kärringtand (Lotus corniculatus – Bird’s-foot trefoil). … Continue readingLost comb

Sir Bourbon trumpeter

Dixieland

The Sir Bourbon Dixieland Band playing to entertain shoppers at Wieselgrensplatsen, Monday 16 June.

Above: Richard Podgorski on trumpet.
Below: Richard Podgorski with Stig Nilsson on banjo and Stig Erixon on trombone.
Bottom: The whole band together outside the local Co-op. … Continue readingDixieland