Two in one day? Not exactly. The previous blog at 01-15 am was for yesterday :)
Well, the forest gossip continued today under, for the most part, beautiful sunshine. Warm outside (a coolish wind)
and tonight is what looks like a full moon in a wonderfully clear sky. It's a hypnotic scenario watching the moon's reflection
skateboarding over the lake surface...perhaps skateboarding is incorrect, it's more like snowboarding as the reflections acrobat
around, dazzling in their performance and speed.
Now, snowboarding...hmmm... that's something I wish I were young enough to have a go at :)
I fnd the combination of human physical agility against the snow so poetic and 'flowing like good choreography'
that it's something of a tribute to the development of the human species, especially within the last 50 years. I cannot remember anyone, in my childhood, doing anything so adventurously risky and so supremely stating self-confidence. If any snowboarders read this, Hey, I admire your skills and self-awareness :):)
My body's awareness tells me it's time to find some dreams of the subconscious type...that is, time to sleep.
I hope you are all having a weekend full of self-awareness :):)
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Ladysmith Black Mombazo (favs of mine) have a beautiful song about rain....in which the chorus line says 'never comes'. Well they should be here :):) Rain, lowered temp (8 C) and grey. Not that this stopped me from getting on with some construction work!
I have learnt that this location has it's own special beauty irrespective of the weather conditions: the sun reflecting off the lakeside and sending kaleidoscopic rhythmic patterns onto the ceilings and walls: the lakes (there are over 30 of them within a 15 km radius) talking to each other in pre-deluvian dinosauric moans when the winter freezings have rigidified their surfaces...or, today, the incredible rain-formed diamonds glistening on the trees and bushes.
Yep! Nature has it's methodologies. Across our little dale angels have been busy pointilising the barren trees with minute greens so that there is a whisper of spring starting to gossip through the forest. In the garden the Lilacs have started a rash of buddings and the blackcurrant/redcurrant bushes have joined the competition. Mind you, they have some work to do if they intend to catch up with the Rhodedendrons.
This area of Sweden is an absolute gem of nature.
Maybe I'll see the beaver soon (oh, it took up residence on our side of the lake, about 500 metres from the house, over a year ago. Have you ever seen one? It isn't much bigger than my cat...but, WOW, what this little thing can do with those teeth...he decimated a Birch tree colony, not far away, last year. We bought a lot of the downed trees...and they were our winter heating.
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I have now started to build and publish the 'The Sweden Experience' website which is the reason, probably, that anyone is reading this.
I hope to considerably enlarge it over the months.
It's URL is http://lo.2ya.com
A little colder today and the evening greyness gave way to heavy rain (: Still, nature has it's methodologies.
That's probably more than can be said about my neurons when it comes to making websites :):)

Having corrected my error from yesterday, when I appeared to mess up the publishing process to my website,
I now have a blog working properly.
Yesterday was a superb spring day (Spring having officially started the day before), beautiful sunshine and warm
(14 Celsius)
Today is a little grey, overcast but still about the same temperature.
The silences of this little dale by the lake are disappearing as the songs of masses of migratory
birds chorus springtime.
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Well I've been blogged! It was really quite painless and actually quite pleasant....maybe any readers will also find the ramblings which appear here to be of simliar standard.
Ah well, here goes my brain :)
I hope you enjoy :)