Scandinavian summer is the short kind like a visitor in a hurry July is almost over late summer with signs of autumn's arrival Beautiful August bring warm colors to make up for cold and dark evenings
Late summer
Author: annefloa
Ladybird
Little red bug fluttering about resting in colorful gardens and flowering fields making children shouting happy summertime is just the best
Sweet berries
remember a walk in a blueberry field covered of pink little flowers a few weeks later the blueberry field turned all green with berries to be now summer is on in the blueberry field and the ripe berries taste so sweet
Summer flowers
Summer flowers from dark pink to pale green just like a rainbow Summer flowers from field to forest celebrating summer
Holly blue
Celastrina argiolus or holly blue is a common butterfly during spring in Norway (May to June). In Norway we call it “blåvinge” which means “blue wing” in English.
In the shot below the butterfly is resting on heather. I have always wondered why the English name on these beautiful insects is “butterfly”. Somewhere I once read that it originally was named “flutter by” but as it could be difficult to pronounce “flutter by” the right way it developed to be “butterfly” in stead. Can this be right? It is reasonable as “flutter by” is kind of an easy description of the movements of this beautiful insect. Does anyone know if this is right? Please feel free to comment below 🙂
In Norway we say “sommerfugl” which in English means “bird of summer”.
Forget me not
Such a strange name for a little flower how can one forget this little beauty shining like little blue pearls sprinkled over the green fields of summer
Light as a feather
Light as a feather a dandelion pappus floats like a tiny parachute carried far away by the light summer breeze were will the journey end
Curled up
Amazing fern all curled up protecting all its leaves in a swirl Beautiful fern all leaves unfolded showing its true beauty like a fan
Viola tricolor
When reading about this common wild flower on Wikipedia I found that this plant has lots of different names:
- wild pansy
- Jonny Jump up (also the name of yellow pansy)
- hearts ease
- hearts delight
- tickle-my-fancy
- Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
- come-and-cuddle-me
- three faces in a hood
- love-in-idleness
- pink of my john
Why all these different names I don’t know, these names was listed in the English translation of Wikipedia. In Norway the common name for these flowers is “night-and-day” or “flower of the stepmother”. I think the Latin name, Viola tricolor, suits this beautiful flower best.
Forest moments
Every time I walk through the forest a new impression catch my eye Hunting details a budding flower funny mushrooms maybe a little frog never boring Every time I walk through the forest a new precious forest moment awaits
Anne Floa 