This will be the final blogpost of 2019 (given that it’s the day before New Year’s Eve it is very unlikely I will write another one before midnight tomorrow ;-)), but I am not going to summarize the year this time around. I’ll probably do that with next week’s post, given that by then I will have finished my 365 project for this year. That’ll be a good time for a wrap-up, both for December as well as for 2019.
Dad on one of the wooden footpaths of the trail.
This week will be all about a recent outing I did to a nearby woodland. I don’t know how many hundreds of times I’ve been to the Skrylle area, outside of Lund, Sweden. Back when I used to jog regularly (should probably get back to that before I get too old to restart that regime!) I was there at least once a week, huffing and puffing along the footpaths. This time around though I discovered a “nature trail” I hadn’t really noticed before. It was supposed to be about 2 miles long and would run over roots, boulders and uneven terrain. When my photo partner (Dad) and I read that on the information sign at the start of the trail we did have some bad vibes about that, given how soggy and saturated the ground is around here after a boatload of rain in the last three months. We decided to risk it and went out on the trail anyway.
Yup, it was wet…very wet in some areas!
It turns out that it was indeed quite soggy and muddy here and there, but with a bit of agile maneuvering between the somewhat drier parts of the trail we could avoid falling or getting very dirty in the process. It was all worth it though, because the woods provided a calm and quiet part of that area I’ve never experienced before. Usually you hear other people (you don’t realize how loud you talk and how far voices carry until you’re out in the woods…or out on water), but here we could only hear ourselves and the birds of the forest. It was great!
The moss covering the ground in some areas made it look almost like fairytale pictures, and you half expected a troll lumbering through the woods, or a fairy to come dancing along from tree to tree (there’s a very well-known, at least locally, artist called John Bauer that came to mind). I’ll definitely return to that trail in spring when the leaves are back on the trees…it’ll make for an interesting stroll, but with a totally different vibe.
Here at the end of the post I’d like to extend wishes of Happy New Year to the one or two people ( ;-) ) who do read my blog and have managed to scroll down all the way to here. I hope 2020 brings you lots of joy and happiness and the successful pursuit of any creative endeavors!