To tågede morgener ~ Two Foggy Mornings

I går var tågen tyk som ærtesuppe. Alting var væk. Det var som om et Ingenting fra Fantasien (Den uendelige historie) var ved at opsluge verden.

Yesterday was foggy. If you ever read The Never-Ending Story you might see a Nothing swallowing the world.

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I dag var det også tåget, men en helt anden tåge. Utroligt hvad et par graders forske kan gøre.

Today was foggy as well, bur what a difference a few degrees lower temperature can do.

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I dag lykkedes det mig også at fange et par flokke af trækkende fugle. Hvis du ser rigtig godt efter, kan du få øje på to flokke her på billedet.

If you look closely - and maybe embiggen the photo - you can see two flocks of migratory birds in this photo.

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Flokken længst til venstre. Det er gæs. Spørg mig ikke hvilken slags. De sidder på markerne i store flokke og æder kornet til landmændenes irritation.

The leftmost flock. A wedge of geese. Don't ask me what kind of geese. They land in the fields in huge flocks and graze the sprouting grain to the farmers' chagrin.

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Og fra højre. En flok svaner. De seneste år er svaner gået fra at overvintre som par til at overvintre i samlede flokke. VI har haft sådan en flok her i nærheden, og nu flyver de tilbage til deres redesteder i mindre flokke, der deler sig op i mindre og mindre enheder for at ende som par igen. Et foretrukkent delested er lige over vores hus.

Swans! For some years now swans have wintered in flocks, where earlier they did so in pairs only. And we have such a flock near by. Now spring is on its way and they leave in small units splitting up in the air into smaller and smaller flocks ending up in their pairs flying to their old nesting places. Such a point for parting of ways is almost on top of our house.

Optimistisk marts -- Optimism Month

     Ifølge Messymimi er marts optimismens måned. Optimisme er da noget, vi har brug for mere af, så lad os begynde måneden med et par gode nyheder

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According to  Messymimi March is Optimism Month. More optimism is surely something we need.
Let's begin this month with some good news.  

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1. Man kan få Bedre vejr. 

    Ja, det er navnet på en vejrtjeneste, der bruger DMIs gamle layout. Herligt.

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1. You can have Better Weather.

    Yes, this really is the name of the weather service using the old lay out from DMI.

2. Vi får vores køreplaner på stoppestederne tilbage igen!
    Nogen gange hjælper det at brokke sig.

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2. We'll have the time tables back on our bus stops again.
    Sometimes complaining helps.

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Det her vil ikke ske igen. -- 😌 --  This won't happen again.

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BAH!

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Day Twenty - Favourite place

The woods close to home. Many a worry has disappeared and many an inspiration appeared biking through the beeches in "my" wood. 


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Day Sixteen - Pattern

Patterns are everywhere

 Eve in smashed paper cups.

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Day Fourteen - Something hidden

If you do not know it, the entrance looks just like another driveway. But it isn't. It's the entrance to our local pond, a scenic place with animal an plant life of all kinds. I love going there being alone.

From a bygone snowfall. It looks dreary and bleak in today's pre-spring thaws.

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Day Twelve - Home

     This dome shaped greenhouse is home to my tomatoes and chillies in the summer. Today I made it ready for the coming summer, removing all the dead tomato and chilli plants from last year, weeding, and chucking out several slugs. I carefully displaced the worms and tried to let the woodlice alone.
     The place, we call home is not our home alone. My garden is home for me, the Writer, and four Owlets, but it's also home to 8 chicken, a zillion wild bees, some lizards, salamanders, frogs, toads, and various birds.
     And this time a year, as every year, I'm trying to tell some crows that this noisy (MotherOwl clapping her hands and making other noises) and dangerous (MotherOwl flapping her black ... t-shirt) place is not a suitable home for baby crows.
     I like to spend the ever increasing time between sunrise and the sounding of the alarm clock sleeping, not lying awake listening to mama and papa crow disciplining and educating the baby crows.

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Day Eleven -Friends

One of my sons and his nephew. Best of friends. 

I missed a couple of days, but the clues seem too good to miss. I will catch up.

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Day Ten - Architecture

Only one photo?

A farmhouse near where I live. The stones at the corners are rounded. I love to look at this place.

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Day Nine - Where are you from?

I was born in a little house in the middle of nowhere. I do not remember this, as I was one year old when we moved away. I grew up In Helsingør - yes Elsinore, the town of Hamlet.
It's now more than 30 years since I left the town, but I often visit there.

Photo from the internet somewhere - December in Elsinore in times gone by.

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Day Eight - Lunch

     Yes, I eat lunch ... every day. Sometimes all alone, sometimes with The Writer and some of the Owlets, sometimes with one, two, three or even four Owlets.

But do I remember to take photos of my lunch? No, I'm much too busy eating it - and talking.

A bento, I once made for a competition. And no, I did not win anything.

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Day Seven - Favourite colour

All the colours of the rainbow ...

But if I have to choose, I choose 

BLUE!

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Day Six - Work space

Well this is where part of my work happens. Other than in the kitchen, bathroom or living room. Making soap and plant dyeing wool are both messy and requires a lot of space and water.


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Day Five - Self portrait

I'm shy.

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Day Three - Weather

The Weather. One of those things people in Denmark are always taking about.
It is by the way fantastic how divers the weather is even on our small island. Windy and cold everywhere, but the amounts of snow differ widely. From the "we're buried in snow, schools are closed" conditions in the south of Zealand to our "Send More Snow" place in north of Zealand.

Windy, grey clouds, -2º , scattered snowflakes.

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Day Two - Biscuits

One of my motherly duties is filling luncboxes for the Owlet. A staple filling is crackers. Variety and number keeps varying with season and over time. Rigt now we go for spicy and quite a lot.


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Day One - Journey

Even the longest jorney begins with the first step. But today it's too cold to do more than dream of a journey.

The way through the woods.

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