Ulrika K

The forest.
Safe and scary.
Silent and full of sounds.
You can’t help but wonder if the trolls are in there somewhere, hidden among the trees. Watching you.

Fresh berries! This is a cloudberry, very common up here in Lapland. Delicious!
In Sweden you are free to pick berries and mushrooms in the forests no matter who owns them. That is one of the things I love best about living here.
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The view from mount Akkanålke, Arvidsjaur, Lapland.

A small..hm… not sure what it’s called in English… Mere? Tarn?  Anyway, it’s on mount Akkanålke, Arvidsjaur.
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Path leading down from Lillberget, Arvidsjaur.

Walking in my favorite forest in my home village Ställberg, Västmanland, together with my youngest son and my dog.
I love the fact that in Sweden, anyone can go into any forest and just talk a walk or pick berries and mushrooms or camp or have a swim in a lake. Doesn’t matter who owns the [...]

How I would love to live in a cabin in the forest, with paradise right outside my window!

Månsträsk, May 21, 2010.
Visiting a friend at her cabin in Månsträsk, a tiny village just north of Arvidsjaur.
The ice on the lake was melting fast, flooding the “yard”.
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