söndag 4 april 2010

Early Easter Sunday morning..

..spring was in the air. No wind and a beautiful morning for a walk with the dogs on the nearby stony beach of Gotland´s Nyhamn..
The sea was like a mirror and there was an abundance of sea birds..
You will find plenty of fossils among the beautiful stones in a range of colors around Gotland´s beaches.(Mind you, there are a great deal with fine, white sand too.)
Backwashes from a ship that passed 20 minutes ago came rolling to break the morning silence.
 A poor, dead woodcock in a deplorably thin condition was lying there on the beach. The harsh winter in Scandinavia has seriously decimated the bird population.
The small colony of fishing huts of Nyhamn.
A "shoe installation" in a tree by the beach.
And then, on the way home, I shot this picture of this pine tree, 450 years old. 
 Nyhamn.