Summertime has ended - soon it's November


The mild rain softens the colours - and the forest is still holding on to the green dress -


- but the oak is following the golden autumn fashion like always


The Fisherman's Cottage by Moesgård


A leftover from the Viking festival?


Moesgård Beach in a gentle October rain.


Don't we all love to look at the sea - even the dog.


The young family father from the beach was very kind. He made his Staffordshire Bull Terrier pose for a photo. It looks like a prize winner.


A Red Admiral has found some fermented apples under the leaves


The sea is there behind the trees, but not in its blue mood.


Dødehuset, a replica of a 'Death House' from Iron Age.


Giberåen, the water stream through 'Moesgård Skov'


The little dachshund had been carrying a wooden stick in his mouth for miles and was extremely proud about this, but when he came to the bridge he got too curious and lost the stick into the water. Mom is catching it with her umbrella. Will she get it for him?


Ready for a ride in the wood


One of the lovely horses


Skovmøllen, the old restaurant


well, autumn colours in the rain through the car window !

photo: grethe bachmann

A Market Day in October, Ingerslev Boulevard, Århus


It's soon Halloween

Enough cheese! Where's the dealer hiding?

Flowers and fruit

Sydesalt (Sea Salt) is produced on an old medieval tradition.
Here they are selling Læsø-Salt.
And then there's coffee in the little coffee-bar.

Lovely cabbage for a good winter's soup.

Playing accordion and selling homemade nesting boxes.

Wonderful autumn colours

Cyclamen, a popular flower at home - especially at
Christmas time.

The apple harvest is rich this year.

Special plants, like rose geranium

One of the best fruit and vegetable dealers

Busy from the first part of the morning.

A marketplace is a happy space, where people arrive in a good mood for a nice shopping tour, buying fruit, vegetables, flowers, cheese, fish, bread, and for meeting and talking. There's a joyful atmosphere like in McCartney's song about Desmond with his barrow in the market place: 'Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, Life goes on bra, La la how the life goes on......'
This marketplace on Ingerslev Boulevard has been there for many years every Wednesday and Saturday, and it's a very popular market. I lived my childhood and youth in the neighbourhood, and it was a must and a joy to go there at least Saturday morning.
The pictures are from early Wednesday morning 25. October around 10.30, before the big crowd arrives. Every Sunday in September- October is a special market, where people can rent a place to sell things, they want to get rid of! But it is possible to do a good bargain - like in all other flea markets - if you're lucky!

photo: grethe bachmann

Water People in October -

 - digging for lug worms


the old man and the sea


sailing on silken water


inshore fishing, medicine for the soul


Eider hunters, all those birds cannot be for private use...


caught some trouts after a long days fishing


cormorants drying their wings late afternoon
photo: grethe bachmann

A Mild October's Day on the Beach









photo: grethe bachmann

Sun Dogs/ Bisole


West of the sun

East of the sun

Sun Dogs are light spots on both sides of the sun, they are due to refractions in ice crystals in thin clouds.


photo 140506 Saturday afternoon: gb

Rosa rugosa/ Hybenrose



Rose hips/hyben are the orange , red, brown or black fruits of the rose. The most common wild rose in Denmark is Rosa rugosa, which came to country in the midst of the 1800s. It's growing by beaches and along the edges of roads. The fruits are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as trushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seed in their droppings.

Rose hip is very rich in C-vitamin, it's among the richest sources of any plant, it also has a good amount of A-vitamin and calcium.

The rose hips are good for jelly and marmelade, juice, tea, soup. Rosehips are also commonly used externedly in oil form to restore firmness to the skin by nourishing and astringing tissue.
It's the outer peel of the fruit that's used. The seeds are filled with itching powder.

In some pagan mythologies no undead or ghostly creatures (i.e. vampires) may cross the path of a wild rose. It was thought that to place a wild rose on a coffin of a recently deceased person would prevent them from rising again.

photo: grethe bachmann

Paradise Apple/Paradisæble /Malus species



Paradise Apple is a lovely little tree with bunches of beautiful flowers in the spring and lots of miniature apples in yellow or red colours in the autumn. They are hardy trees and are found in many sorts, some of them grow in gardens and parks, other in fences or feral in forest and thicket. Most of the sorts origin from East Asia. There is place for a paradise apple tree even in the smallest garden.

The fruits are still on the trees a long time after leaf fall, and they are very much sought after by birds.

De biggest fruits are fine in jelly and gelé. They can also give an extra special taste to a snaps - whole preserved paradise apples are an excellent and pretty accompaniment for many desserts - and raw paradise apples cooked in pies, cakes or fermented into cider - the taste can be sweet and pleasant.


photo: grethe bachmann

Cherry Plum/Kirsebærblomme ('Mirabelle')
Prunus cerasifera



Cherry Plum grows wild in the countryside, but is also found in gardens both in fence and as a pretty standard tree. The fruits have a fine yellow-orange to red colour. They can be eaten fresh in some forms, being sweet with a good flavour, while others are sour, but excellent for jam-making. They are also used in snaps and liqueur. Cherry plum is also called Myrobalan (plum).

Kirsebærblomme is mostly known as Mirabelle in Denmark, although they are not quite the same species. It is popular served as stewed fruit with double cream. This year, 2006, has been an immensely rich fruit season, also for the 'Mirabelles', and the windfalls have been fermenting on the ground making the wasps and other insects drugged and confused. They have also in some degree attracted a special butterfly, Camberwell Beauty (Sørgekåbe) , which is sucking alcohol from the 'Mirabelles' .

Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis aniopa) is rare in Denmark, but this year there was an 'invasion'. Maybe the warmer climate is due to this.

photo: grethe bachmann

Autumn Flowers











photo: grethe bachmann