{"id":22176,"date":"2026-03-29T20:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22176"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:39:49","slug":"daily_4043_-_karson_spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/daily_4043_-_karson_spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4043 &#8211; K\u00e4rs\u00f6n, spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo walk\/mini hike on K\u00e4rs\u00f6n, a small island in lake M\u00e4laren in northwestern Stockholm. I wanted something relatively nearby, and with at least a chance of liverwort: sunny slopes facing south, and a mixed forest, not pure pine on rock.<\/p>\n<p>I so want spring to be here. March is not spring, I tell myself every year. It is, at best, not-winter. I didn&#8217;t let myself have very high hopes for the liverwort. But here they were! Some still in buds, barely open, but also fully blooming stands.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had planned my walk for today because the forecast promised sunshine. There was some of that, but mostly the sky was overcast and the air quite chilly. Definitely hat and gloves weather. With nothing really growing yet, the big picture feeling was dreary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though some sections of the path were muddy, I got through everything with dry feet. Some balancing on fallen trees was required at times.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_7.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was still ice in small, sheltered bays.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the big picture is dull, I take out my macro lens and look for the small things. Liverwort. Dead, fallen trees; dead, standing trees. Not-green things growing on trees. This is always more fun in nature reserves where there is a mixture of species, and trees are allowed to fall where they fall, and remain there afterwards. Production forests tend to be less varied in what you can find.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_5.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4043_Karson_8.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo walk\/mini hike on K\u00e4rs\u00f6n, a small island in lake M\u00e4laren in northwestern Stockholm. I wanted something relatively nearby, and with at least a chance of liverwort: sunny slopes facing south, and a mixed forest, not pure pine on rock. I so want spring to be here. March is not spring, I tell myself every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,773,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-outdoors","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22183,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions\/22183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}