I cannot think of a better smell than a bog on a summer’s day.

🏖️🦆🌦️☕🥐🌤️🐛 I hope you’re all enjoying a wonderful summer 🦋🌻🍒🍉🚶♂️🚶🐃
I cannot think of a better smell than a bog on a summer’s day.

🏖️🦆🌦️☕🥐🌤️🐛 I hope you’re all enjoying a wonderful summer 🦋🌻🍒🍉🚶♂️🚶🐃

Once in a small green field, a group of ordinary cows grazed on grass all day. One day, while munching on clover, they noticed rabbits playing nearby. The cows plotted to become ambush predators, hiding behind bushes to catch the rabbits off guard. However, a premature “Moo!” gave them away. Despite repeated failed attempts, they eventually gave up, returning to grazing. One cow remarked, “Ambushing isn’t for us. Let’s stick to eating grass!” And so, they lived contentedly ever after, watching the rabbits play in the distance.

The Sea Stallion from Glendalough will be launched on Saturday, 6 April 2024, from its winter hibernation.
















The wood shavings sprinkled over me from the tall fir trees. Every time I stood still and looked up, everything became still.
After a short time it sounded like this: Chop, chop, chop, chop, and then I noticed the woodpecker sitting in the firs.*
Today is the first real day of spring! A wonderful ‘tree show’ and the sweet sound of woodpeckers. Whoopee! 😊


My own picture, with the two woodpeckers, appears in ‘Bevar Møllen ved Stampen‘, June 2015. The second image of ‘Den Store Flagspætte’, Dendrocopos major, is generated using AI.
It is believed that when you hear the call of a woodpecker, it is a message from nature urging you to be aware of the opportunities and changes happening in your life.
Having wood shavings sprinkled over me is an exquisite sign 🎈😎
*My picture of the woodpecker today wasn’t good enough, so I chose my old picture from 2015. Woodpeckers have a thing for moving 😂

It was a day that included all weather conditions.
The day started cloudy and in dry weather. It blew up, and a few holes in the cloud cover revealed a blue sky, so infinitely beautiful.
But when I looked over my shoulder, dark clouds were towering, and soon the snow was gathering around us, painting the ground white.
When we came out of the forest we caught sight of this: The pond with two young swans and the wonderful sky reflecting on the surface.


We are looking forward to this walk. Søllerød Naturpark always offers beautiful views.
The walk passes the beautiful thatched farm: Rygård.
To my surprise, I find that Olga, the last Grand Duchess of Russia, lived at Rygård after fleeing the Russian Revolution in 1917.
There is always a story hidden somewhere. The exciting thing is finding it 😊😎
She moved to Rygård north of Copenhagen in 1930 with her husband and sons, after living in a small apartment in the Copenhagen.
She enjoyed the peaceful and rural surroundings of Rygård, where she could paint and tend to her garden. She also befriended the local people and helped them with various tasks. She stayed at Rygård until 1948, when she left for Canada.
Rygård is now part of the Søllerød Naturpark, a protected area of natural and cultural heritage.
Olga Alexandrovna was the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and the sister of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. She grew up in a tense political atmosphere, marked by several assassination attempts on her father and brother. She married Duke Peter of Oldenburg, in a loveless and unconsummated marriage. She later divorced him and married her true love, Colonel Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had two sons.
During the First World War, she served as a nurse and was awarded a medal for bravery.
She witnessed the downfall of the Romanov dynasty in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and escaped with her family to Crimea, where they lived under constant threat of execution. Her brother and his family were brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. She managed to flee Russia with her husband and sons in 1920 and joined her mother, the Dowager Empress, in Denmark.
She moved to Canada in 1948, fearing Stalin’s regime, and died there in 1960. She was the last surviving member of the Romanov family.
Happy New Week to You All❤️




October 2023 had the largest amount of rain in Denmark for 25 years.
But it is still possible to see the incredible autumn foliage.
Not everything has been washed away by the rain.
Our walk in Bøllemosen is wonderful, and the smell of peat conjures up images of Norway.
Have to decide which part of Norway needs a visit next year. 😃
Happy new week to you all!

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