It is now September – almost Autumn and after a long hot summer the warm days linger on. Sweden has had its hottest summer ever.
Fields of red clover and wild flowers still in bloom, create a food larder for the bees and mushrooms appear in the dew soaked grass under the ancient oaks.
Everywhere trees are laden with apples, acorns, chestnuts and rowan berries.
It is difficult to see the birds in the forest -it is dark and silent.
Leaving our hotel on the hillside overlooking the Baltic Sea – the woods open out onto meadows. We spot nuthatches and red squirrels, bluetits, chaffinches, willow warblers and woodpeckers. Nature comes alive here.
Sweden is a land of light and dark – it will be difficult to capture its essence. Granite rocks, dense woodland, wide open farmland and ever changing skies. Painting the wild landscape will be a challenge and so little time to study it before returning to gentle Dorset.
