The winterseed creates lovely green fields during the winter season. On a mild day in December the sun was shining through a haze across the winter-green fields.
The green fields are also good for geese and whooper swans who do some grazing up here North in winter.
You might almost believe that this is a spring morning and the church bell is ringing for service, but it is in the afternoon and the sun is already slowly on its way down.
If the winter is hard it can be a very costy business for the farmer. The extra expenses can be enormous if the seed is damaged. The winter is mild until now, sometimes with plus 10 Celsius which is a very high temperature in December. But you can never tell. January and February can be a tough period for the winter seed.
A cosy little village lies surrounded by green fields.
A centralization in the 1960s meant that many shops, manufacturing business and schools have disappeared from the villages. But the increasing interest for the local community, environment and nature has caused that many villages have become attractive for people who are commuting to their job or go shopping in the big cities.
In some regions called udkantsDanmark ( outskirtsDenmark) are problems because the necessary jobs are only to find in the big cities. One of the results are many empty houses in the villages and no shops at all. A sad development.
It looks so peaceful and beautiful. This might be a scene from a Jane Austen film with d'Arcy and Elizabeth coming in from the right.............
Now it's later in the afternoon and the green fields are darker green. Today's painters do not (usually) create their paintings outdoors. ( Maybe when they do watercolours). But when it was common to work on a painting outdoors they had to work fast in order to catch the light and the shades which many French impressionists have described. .
The last landscape from this day in December. The light is quickly fading. See you next time!
photo East Jutland December 2014: grethe bachmann
