Tag: nature

A collection of bees

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While the world population of bees is in danger, it seems my policy of not caring for the property – in the fashion my neighbours would prefer – has paid off. Every day when I fetch the horses from pasture, it has been buzzing with bumbles, I really should have filmed that during our heatwave, it was deafening. (how am I not getting these ideas at the time of action? I’ve thought about a video diary for quite a while, and yet…) During my little photo adventure the other day I met more bees. Some of them are possibly flies in disguise, I know we have those too.

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Holiday at home

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Came upon this beauty grazing my pasture, as I was wading through a patch of tall grass and weeds.
Came upon this beauty grazing my pasture, as I was wading through a patch of tall grass and weeds. No cropping!

At the cottage, holiday does not mean catching a plane to roast at the pool of some southern European hotel, it means prodding the big guy to do some maintenance on the wreck we call home. As a result, I also have to do some things of course, as well as assisting with comments etc, so nothing much is going on in the studio at all because of my aforementioned handicap when it comes to moving between brain halves.

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Nettle-along project page

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I’ve only added a few things to the Page due to health issues, next post will appear in a couple of weeks.

I’m beginning to suspect that the info about saving stalks for a year is incorrect. Looking through an old booklet suggests that “people of old” processed their nettles in the fall. I’ll try to write a summary and translate it because there is a lot of interesting information in there, including a few chuckles:

In Swedish from Carl von Linné 1749: “Nätslor voro här plÃ¥ckade till grönkÃ¥l, sÃ¥som det allmänt sker i Sverige om vÃ¥rtiden, sÃ¥ længe denna nätsla är späd och ännu ej en fingers lÃ¥ng… Somliga lägga till denna sin nätsle-kÃ¥l bladen av ängelöken eller körfvel, at kÃ¥len mÃ¥ fÃ¥ en angenämare smak; andra bruka plÃ¥cka bladerna af sqvaller-kÃ¥l … och Ã¥tskilliga andra växter, utan Ã¥tskillnad, hvarigenom ofta händer, at folket, som äta kÃ¥len blifva vimmerkantiga.”

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Nettle-along

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Motherowl asked me if I would host a study group for making nettle yarn. I know some of the bloggers that I follow have already tried this with varying results, but since I like to get my own hands-on failures I’m going through with this project anyway. So I’d love for everyone to chime in, newcomers as well as those who already have the t-shirt. The more info we can gather in one place, the better!

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