A few rays of sunshine, but it wasn’t comparable to September last year.
Esrum Lake is Denmark’s second largest lake.
The lake is shaped like a large bathtub with deep slopes not far from the width and a large relatively flat bottom. It is formed during the last ice age, probably because a large ice block has been left on site.
September last year
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute,
day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet
No wasted minutes on this icy cold spring day.
The lapwing cries and makes spectacular patterns in the air.
The horses play tag and roll in the dust.
It’s an outstanding day 🙂
All that glitters is not black.
You can walk for hours in the oldest forest in Denmark without seeing a soul.
Then suddenly you see a movement among trees and grasses and sometimes those beautiful animals come to greet you or maybe check your bag for carrots 🙂
He knows when you’re happy
He knows when you’re comfortable
He knows when you’re confident
And he always knows when you have carrots.
Unknown author
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact
with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears
Arabian proverb
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open
Gerald Raferty
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
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Gribskov – Need to know
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
Seneca
The badger is the largest predator in Denmark and can reach the age of 7 to 8 years.
We found this lovely badger dead on the railway tracks 3 days ago. Probably hit by the train in the early morning.
The badger is rather slow and noisy when looking for food, so it rarely captures healthy mammals and birds, but likes to take carrion.
It often find food within a range of 300-400 meters from the grave. The badger is a real troglodyte, who lives more than half his life down in the grave.
The badger gives birth to 2-3 cubs and raise them in the den. The cups are born in March, but they are not allowed to come out of the grave before May when they learn to seek feed together with their mother.
Sad end of a beautiful walk.
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When have you last sought shelter from the rain under a tree in the forest?
Standing there when raindrops are falling on withered leaves and the scent of rain fills and enriches the air you breathe.
I did that a few days ago when the sun and rain in turn were stars on a beautiful March day.
“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.”
By Hamlin Garland, McClure’s, February 1899
Can you recommend the buffet, I asked my hairy friend.
I think it’s delicious but take a walk in the area and see for yourself!
So I did what the horse said and it was worth it, even in cloudy weather though I left the buffet for the horse and his fellowship.
A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here
A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
But human nature feels.
It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay:
A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a sacrament.
A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson
I went to the forest to find the beautiful horses at Sandskreds Soe, the horse in this post is from my hike in December.
Nevertheless the hike was stunning with the light that gleamed in lakes and hills, grasses and trees
Det lykkedes mig ikke at finde de smukke heste ved Sandskreds Sø, hesten i dette indlæg er fra min vandretur i december.
Ikke desto mindre var vandreturen fantastisk med lyset, der skinnede i søer og bakker, græs og træer.
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God tur pas på hinanden, og husk madpakken ❤
30 Meter Høje Radartårn på det 90 meter høje Multebjerg midt inde i Gribskov
Hvornår tror du, flyvevåbnet giver en kop kaffe? Min ven er meget glad for udsigter, det har derfor været den stående bemærkning gennem mange år, når vi passerede Radarhoved Multebjerg på vandring midt inde i Gribskov.
En rund fødselsdag var nært forstående, og da jeg er glad for at finde på overraskelser, var der ikke langt fra tanke til handling; jeg skrev et brev til forsvarskommandoen i Vedbæk, og forklarede om vennens trang til at komme i højden.
Havde jeg forventet nogen reaktion? Nej, måske ikke. Glæden var derfor stor, da jeg blev ringet op af chefen for Radarhoved Multebjerg. Invitationen skulle være en overraskelse på fødselsdagen, og chefen havde taget det hensyn at ringe for at hemmeligholde arrangementet. En meget hensynsfuld gestus, synes jeg.
Da fødselsdagen oprandt stod jeg med en officiel indbydelse fra Radarhoved Multebjerg, jeg tror, det er den bedste gave, jeg nogen sinde har givet 🙂
Lille radartårn på Multebjerg, Gribskov
Vi blev modtaget i porten ind til anlægget af Kaptajn Allan Kjerrumgaard, og blev budt velkommen. Vi fik en briefing i bunkeren mange meter under skovens muld. Besøget var en speciel oplevelse, dels fordi det var meget interessant og nyt, men også fordi der var en utrolig god stemning overalt, hvor vi kom frem. Vi var ikke i tvivl, det var en superb arbejdsplads, med en god holdånd.
Snart befandt vi os højt over trækronerne i Gribskov i det høje radartårn, og kunne kigge til Dronningen på Fredensborg Slot og teletårnet mange kilometer væk i Store Dyrehave. Vi kunne se til Tibirke Bakker. Det var helt fantastisk!!!
Det er en dag, vi tænker tilbage på med stor taknemmelighed.
Vi håber, Radarhoved Multebjergs mandskab har det godt, lige meget hvor i verden, de befinder sig.
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HANNA'S WALK 
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