Green Foxy's summer

Part 6

Summer D
Flowers and a
day trip to Vännäsby
 
2011-06-26. A thunderstorm was coming over the yard.
2011-06-26. The rain was pouring down.
2011-06-26. It was refreshing for the flowers.
2011-06-26. I love this Dahlia.
2011-06-26. This Dahlia was also pretty.
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2011-06-26. Another Dahlia.
2011-06-26. the flower pots.
2011-06-26. Poppy.
2011-06-26. Poppy.
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2011-06-26. Lupines.
2011-06-26. Tagetes.
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2011-06-26. Lilac.
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A day trip to Vännäsby and Baggböle
2011-06-28. Happy me by the Vindel River.
2011-06-28. Ove took me with the car to Slöjdarnas hus by the Vindel River. Slöjd  = Handicraft and in the house you could buy handicraft. Or only go and look. And you could sit in the café in the garden and look out over the river.
2011-06-28. The Vindel River.
2011-06-28. This was such a nice pavilion.
2011-06-28. The were a lot of lupines growing by the river.
2011-06-28. Me taking pictures.
2011-06-28. Me in my Fjällräven t-shirt in the pavilion.
2011-06-28. We had a nice view over the river
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2011-06-28. Lupines.
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2011-06-28. The garden café is behind the house. We did not go there because we should eat lunch soon.
2011-06-28. I enjoyed this place so much
2011-06-28. The bridge over the vindel river is a part of the Blue Road (The E12).
2011-06-28. Close-up picture of a lupine.
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2011-06-28. Blue bells. This kind is the small one that are growing wild in Sweden
2011-06-28. Lupines.
2011-06-28. Ove on the path by Slöjdarnas Hus..
2011-06-28. Art.
2011-06-28. This house also belonged to Slöjdarnas Hus.
2011-06-28. The thing lying behind the bench is  a staircase for a storing house.
2011-06-28. The Norwegian flag.
2011-06-28.  The four Scandinavian flags. From left to right:  Norway, Finland, Sweden, Finland.
2011-06-28. A landing-stage for small boats.
2011-06-28. The garden café.
2011-06-28. A part of the house.
2011-06-28. This house is a restaurant. It's in a place named Brännland.
2011-06-28. Nature in Brännland.
2011-06-28. These houses are museum houses. It are tenement soldier's cottages. A soldier  who was employed at the army could live here. Difficult to explain but here is a link about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_allotment_system
2011-06-28. Happy me by the houses.
2011-06-28. Ove by the houses.
2011-06-28. This stone has nothing to do with the houses. It's a lifting stone. Young strong men did lift it to show how strong they were.
2011-06-28. These houses are so pretty.
2011-06-28. Me by the fence.
2011-06-28. Ove by a house.
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2011-06-28. Ove taking pictures of a house

Ove drove on a road through the woods. Then suddenly there run a squirrel over the road in front of the car!! Ove put on the break and this saved the squirrel. It run to the other side of the road. How I hate it when animal cross the road. :-( I was relieved that the squirrel was not hurt.

This picture of a squirrel taken: 2001-06-26.

2011-06-28. We went to a mansion in the place named Baggböle.
2011-06-28. Ove walking to the mansion.
2011-06-28. I walking to the mansion.
2011-06-28. An old carriage.
2011-06-28. We had a delicious lunch in the restaurant of the mansion.
2011-06-28. Fried salted pork and onion sauce. And a little bit salmon and pickled herring.
2011-06-28. Ove in the restaurant. In the corner is an old tiled stove.
2011-06-28. The restaurant and a little view of the Ume river.
2011-06-28. The rapid water.
2011-06-28. In this room were before water power turbines. Now they put a work of art therr with a ligth on it.
2011-06-28.  The sculpture is a meditating artist. But people call him for Buddha. The name of the artist who made the sculpture is Fredrik Wretman.
2011-06-28. A bit of this part of the river is dry because the water power station made a dam. And they release a part of the water.
2011-06-28. A walking path by the river.
2011-06-28. this path goes steep down. But you can't see this on the picture.
2011-06-28. This is a warning sign. If you are on the dry rocks in the river and hear the alarm you have to run to land. Because then the  water power station is releasing more water and big waves can come and you will drown. We never use to go on the rocks. But there are people who does.
2011-06-28. This path by the river is a park named Arboretum Norr. It's a garden with trees. There are trees from all kind of countries.
2011-06-28. Me in Arboretum Norr.
2011-06-28. Roses in Arboretum Norr.
2011-06-28. The Ume river in Baggböle.
2011-06-28. The rapid water.
2011-06-28. The rapid water.
2011-06-28. The rapid water.
2011-06-28. A telephoto lens picture of the river. Here there  was more water.
2011-06-28. The mansion on the backside.
2011-06-28. Ove looking at the river.
2011-06-28. Me walking on the viewing place.
2011-06-28. Me reflecting in the puddle.
2011-06-28. Me standing on top of the steep hill.
2011-06-28. A beautiful flower in the park.
2011-06-28. A beautiful flower in the park.
2011-06-28. My hood protected me from mosquitoes.
2011-06-28. Beautiful flowers.
2011-06-28. A very odd pine.
2011-06-28. A Japanese rose.
2011-06-28. Me by a flowering bush.
2011-06-28. crane's-bill.
2011-06-28. Ove in the park.
2011-06-28. Staircases down from the mansion to the river.
2011-06-28. Ove and the mansion.
2011-06-28. The garden café of the mansion.
2011-06-28. I liked these flowers very much.
2011-06-28. Ove in the woods.
2011-06-28. I think this bird was a thrush.
2011-06-28. Flowers and a bug.
© Photo: Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-03-12