#vänern

[michaelnordeman]

Arskagen, part of the Nötön-Åråsviken nature reserve in Värmland, Sweden (18 June 2024).

[amanwithvanishingideas]

Another beatiful sunset......

[ljussangen]

[petterbrorson]

Trångsundet, akvarell, 12x17 cm

En fin grej med paddling, förutom att det är en trevlig aktivitet, är att när man är på vattnet och tittar mot land så öppnar sig ett helt nytt spann av motiv att måla

Det här är en liten färgstudie från ett foto som jag tog när jag paddlade i Liljedal nyligen.

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Trångsundet, watercolour, 12x17 cm

One nice thing about paddling, besides being an enjoyable activity, is that being on the water looking at land presents a whole new range of subjects to paint.

This is a small colour study from a photo I took while paddling in Liljedal recently.

[thoughts-of-a-heathen]

"Many, many years ago, there lived a giant in Dalsland and a giantess in Västergötland. They were building a bridge so that they could meet eachother. The giant started building in Dalsland. He had a good building technique, and that's the origin of Hjortens udde ('the deer's headland'). The giantess started building in Västergötland. She took [a load of stones] and ran around and threw the stones here and there, which created Hindens rev ('the doe's reef'). But then [the giants] were hit by Tor's hammer and died, and the bridge was never completed."

- Johannes Söderlund, Otterstads socken, Västergötland. 1923.

[brunomarco]

Thunderstorm running in …..

[saxiquine]

Vacay time without the kids.

Went out on my sup to the tip of Hindens Rev in lake Vänern, Sweden.

[mostly-history]

Satellite photo of the Scandinavian peninsula (February 19th, 2003), taken from NASA's Terra satellite.

Along the west side of the peninsula are the jagged inlets, or fjords, that line Norway's coast.  Many of the fjords are over 610m deep, and were carved out of heavy, thick glaciers that formed during the last ice age.  These glaciers ran off the mountains and scoured troughs into Norway's coastline with depths well below sea level.  When the glaciers melted, seawater rushed into the deep troughs to form the fjords.  Sognefjord, nicknamed “King of the Fjords”, is the deepest fjord on the Norwegian coast.  It is located in south-west Norway and is 1,308m deep.

The mountains in Norway and northernmost Sweden were also carved by glaciers.  South of this mountainous region, Sweden mostly has flat, heavily-forested land dotted with lakes.  Vänern and Vättern, Sweden's largest lakes, don't freeze completely in winter and can be seen clearly at the bottom of the peninsula.  Vättern was connected to the Baltic Sea during the last ice age.  After the ice melted, a huge weight was lifted off the peninsula, and the landmass rose up to separate the lake from the Baltic Sea.

Finland (in the north-east) has over 55,000 lakes, mostly of which were also created by glacial deposits.