Summer

The blip is a classic image of Swedish summer, yellow fields of rapeseed, blue sky and some greenish trees. You see them everywhere, huge areas of the same crop, very beautiful and the scent is almost overpowering. The plant is used for making cooking-oil, animal feed, margarine but can also be refined into fuel for machines and cars. They are beautiful to watch but are by botanists concidered to be a monoculture, a kind of desert for pollinators like bumblebees, if they fly in there, they might not find their way out again. We have a few weeks of these colorful fields, when they are ripe they produce their seeds and then turn brown and dry.

I worked my last day at the theatre for the season, next season starts in august-september.

Despite the weather looking very sunny and nice, we've had strong winds with gusts of up to 13m/s, coming from the north east, which means it has travelled a long way over the Baltic sea and become really chilly. Not so nice but quite common this time of year when warm air meets cold water which in turn creates turbulence.