Lake Reflection

The lake is Lillsjön or Little Lake. A long time ago there was a bridge not far from the lake called Jordbro and that's how Jordbro got it's name. Back then there was an old pub next to the bridge. Both pub and bridge are long gone. Bigger Photo.

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View from a bridge

There's a path in the forest between Jordbro and Handen. Popular with joggers and dog owners. If you follow that path you will find a nature park. It's called Slätmossen and I have blogged about it a couple of times before. It's an old peat swamp turned into a bird park. This is the view from a wooden bridge. I always take this photo. It looks a bit different compared to my last post back in September. I never get bored with this view. I have taken some really good shots there, here is a link to the best one.

Full Moon

There's a hill at Bergdalen in Tungelsta where I live. I often go up there to capture the sunset. This time it was a few hours later and the moon was full. I find it very peaceful to sit up there in the dark and look at the stars, or as in this case earth's natural satellite.

One year ago

Digging in to my flickr archives. This was the scene exactly one year ago. A red cottage with a blue door in a snowy landscape. Shot at Stenvägen in Lida. I was going to go back there today for the 2006 version but it was raining to hard. Weather permitting I will try again tomorrow. I have been on flickr since May 2004, and I always check in the archive every morning to see what I did this time one or two years ago. If you havent yet opened a flickr account, do it now. It is without doubt the best photo site in the history of the web.

7 Bohemian Waxwings

I could here the birds chatting away up the tree in Lida, and decided to stop and take a few photos. I was on the bicycle so it took a minute to get the camera ready. After I took this, I was going to zoom in and get a close-up, but the 7 Bohemian Waxwings or Sidensvansar as they are known in swedish decided that the photo shoot was over and flew away...

A Wild Duck

I often visit the nature park Slätmossen in Handen. A great place to sit and read, go for a walk or go for a photo shoot. That's what I normally do. Here's todays photo from the park, a Wild Duck, or Gräsand as we call them.

A Leaf Picker!

I didnt know that they existed. But here's proof. A leaf picker! She walked around the bus terminal area in Västerhaninge yesterday with her leaf rake, looking up for any remaining leaves to collect.

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Shop 'Til You Drop

The welcoming sign at the big shopping mall in Handen. I hate shopping, so I tend to avoid this place. But it has all the stores that you will ever need, including the Systembolaget, the most important of all Swedish shops. Handen is the seat of the Municipality of Haninge and 12 000 people call it home.

Redpoll up a birch tree

This is a Redpoll, Carduelis flammea or Gråsiska in Swedish. I didnt know that when I uploaded the photo to flickr, so I posted it in a few bird groups and it was identified whitin a couple of hours. It is very unusual for this finch to be seen in this part of the country. Normally they stay up North and when winter comes they migrate to Germany. For the last month I have had a few hundred of these birds flying around the birch trees just outside my window. It is a small bird, ca 12 cm long, and it weighs no more than 12 gram. There's more info at Wikipedia.

Reaching for the sky

Something's up at the Supermarket Coop Forum in Handen. Hard to miss this big crane! No idea what they will build here, this is the parking lot. I googled it and found an aerial photo.

Waves rolling in

The waves rolling in from Hårsfjärden, in the Baltic sea at Årsta havsbad in Haninge. From my Sunday visit. 10C, a few people out walking. And me with camera. A nice day.

Sunny November Sunday

A roller skier at Fors in Haninge enjoying the fantastic weather this Sunday. Guess what I did? That's right, I took a bike ride. It was around 10 C, not much wind, and a clear blue sky. I made another visit to my favorite beach. I rested on the big bench down by the water before starting to take photos. Not a bad day.

November Rain

I took one of my MP3 Players for a walk in the rain. Because it was Saturday I stopped at Välsta for my weekly shot of the old oak. The rain started to pick up so I decided to turn back home after a visit to the old barn at the Nödesta Farm. Not that many people around, but a few of the sheep greeted me.


The same sheep that I met last week btw.

Distant Heating Pipeline

A truck arrives at Nederstaleden in Västerhaninge with pipelines for the distant heating project. Short explanation:
The idea behind distant heating is that one big source will be used instead of many smaller ones. From the power plant the water runs via the pipeline to the houses. After warming up the house the cooling water goes back to the power plant and the process is repeated. The Power Plant in Jordbro uses renewable fuel.

SILVER BULLIT

This is the tamper Plasser & Theurer Stopfexpress 09-3X. Top performance, precision and reliability are everyday demands placed on modern maintenance machinery. In rail construction, Plasser & Theuerer has developed an asynchronous balanced-pressure tamping system for tamping at a frequency of 35 Hz that assures precise geometric positioning of the tracks and the efficient manufacture of tie supports.The Stopfexpress 09-3X three-tie tamping machine works more uniformly by processing a longer length of rail per tamping cycle. It is also 40 percent faster than the previously fastest machines. So now you know that. I shot this in Västerhaninge. The railway line is the Nynäsbanan.It goes between the nation's capital, Stockholm and the port city of Nynäshamn.

What did you buy today?

This is what I came home with from my local grocery store, Konsum in Tungelsta. One Heineken beer, some milk and cream. Filmjölk (see link) and Orange Juice. Two Marsan Vanilla Sauce and some apples for tonights pie. Omega 3 Butter. Yoggi yoghurt. Shower Gel. Tomatoes. Echalots de Tradition. Rye Bread. In all it cost me 248 SEK. What did you buy today?

Moose Encounter

I met a moose (Alces alces) today. I was on my bike and noticed the moose on a nearby field. He was heading for a garden with apple trees at Hammarbo. I took a few photos and a video. There's around 400 000 elks or älgar in Sweden. Every year 100 000 elks are shot during the hunting season which is now over. You can read more about hunting here. I don't hunt btw, I only shoot with my camera.

That Old Tree

Only one month left on this photo project now. I've been walking up to this old oxel for eleven months now. Shot this at the weekend. A very misty day.

Revolving Gate

Zooming in on the revolving gate at the industrial park in Jordbro. One of the companys on the other side is Recip AB a pharmaceutical company in. They focus much on the environmental issues. One popular product is Glucosine.

At the farm

A very misty day in Tungelsta today. I headed up to Nedersta and the old farm there. So today's photos comes from Nödesta, the farm has been here for 700 years.