The end of 2018

Dark, foggy and hardly any colors. The end of the year is near and it is time to leave Svångemåla for the last time this year. The Field is still beautiful but I like it far more when it is full of flowers and birds.

 It was cold when we arrived on the last day of November and frost formed interesting and pretty patterns and formations.

Large parts of Svångemåla are protected as a Biosphere reserve which means that trees that fall down cannot be removed. Looks a bit untidy but the insects and birds love it!

This time of the year everything is wet, wet, wet.

Strong winds blew some weeks ago and took down a large tree that hit our neighbor's barn.  Luckily no one was injured.

Climate change ?

This summer was one of the driest and warmest I can remember. The ground water level sank and several households with their own wells had problems. A large dam not far from Svångemåla is the water reservoar for Kalmar ( a town of about 40,000 inhabitants,  30 k away from Svångemåla ) as well as a fishing lake and a place to go swimming. Due to the dry weather it now looks like this. Hardly any water left, the fish might even die if the winter gets really cold and all the water freeze. If you have read this blog very carefully and got an exceptional memory you might remember this story : http://svangemalanews.blogspot.com/2012/08/airplane-crash.html?m=0  

The landscape now looks very strange and although it is beautiful and dramatic in some ways, it scares me that this is what most lakes might look like in the future.

Note the boat to the far right of the picture!