The colorful part of the season is still ongoing so I decided to get a bit of fresh air and schlep my camera bag with me (as I almost always do in moments like that). I went to the Billebjer Nature Preserve outside Lund, Sweden where an old rock quarry has transformed into a deep lake that is quite popular as a swimming hole in the summer. There is a path around the quarry, sometimes quite close to the edge so you need to have your eyes on where your feet are…and not on potential photo subjects! There’s also a little outcrop with a nice view out over the more flat areas around it. On a clearer day there’s views for miles…but on this day the clouds had closed in on me.
A tug of war must be a canine favorite game!
Since it was the weekend I was thinking there would be a lot of people there, but when I arrived at the southern parking area there were only about four or five cars there, so I didn’t really encounter many people at all. That was good, because that gave me the quiet to enjoy the experience of seeing a huge red kite (a local predator bird) soar over my head, a woodpecker search for food on a tree trunk and a deer out in the underbrush. I didn’t photograph either one of those though, and that is fine with me. Like I said in an upload to Instagram recently; some things are perfectly fine to keep as a memory for me only and not in a photograph!
