Photos from my summer
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luzulaPosting photos from my summer has gotten to be a tradition for me. Here are some from this year: 
May is totally the summer, right? Anyway, here's me carrying the front banner in the syndicalist May Day parade.
This is the view through the mosquito netting in my hammock when I woke up in the morning, having slept in a tree...
...and here's the hammock, hanging in the tree.
Here I am making like a koala on a branch.
And here I'm standing on a rope bridge between two trees, looking happy.
This is the Aitik open pit mine near Gällivare, in the far north of Sweden. Wow, it's big.
Me standing on a low mountain during a botanical inventory.
The rare plant "fjällbrud" (pyramidal saxifrage), or Saxifraga cotyledon. I climbed a mountain just to see it; unfortunately it's not in flower.
One of the lakes I swam in this summer; this one is below the "fjällbrud" site.
Airing out my feet after climbing the mountain with the rare flower. It took me five hours to climb this mountain--there was no trail and the terrain was very rugged (but admittedly I also spent a lot of time being distracted by interesting plants and other things). It took me an hours to descend on the other side, which had a good trail.
Another rarity: this is the fern Diplazium sibiricum, which only grows in a few places in Sweden. I hitchhiked to get to this site; the people who picked me up asked where I was going, and I explained. They were silent a little while, and then politely said: "I guess that's an interest as good as any." Ha.
The holes that an evil squirrel ate in the bottom of my hammock. Arrrrgh!
A mystery organism. I have no idea what it is; I've just sent away a question to a biologist who I hope can answer.
This is Rönnbäck, the place that a mining company wants to turn into a huge open pit mine like the one pictured earlier.
Me posing with a prospecting stick that the company left behind. We will defeat them like we broke the prospecting stick! The previous photo was taken out on the island in the lake (which is really a hydroelectric dam).
People resting in the sun after climbing a mountain top.
Me smelling a "doftticka" (Haploporus odorus). It's a rare polypore fungus which smells very good, kind of like anise, but sweeter.
Me with the beetle "tallbock", or Monochamus sutor. It has lovely long antennae.
Here's my hammock! It's a Hennessy hyperlite with an extra-large rainfly, and I love it. It's more comfortable than my bed (which possibly says that I ought to get a new bed, whatever).
And last, here's me, having swum in the lake (same lake as last photo). Although "lake" is dignifying it too much--it's a shallow pond full of peat moss, which is why I'm literally crawling up, since it's hard to stand on the bottom.
May is totally the summer, right? Anyway, here's me carrying the front banner in the syndicalist May Day parade.
This is the view through the mosquito netting in my hammock when I woke up in the morning, having slept in a tree...
...and here's the hammock, hanging in the tree.
Here I am making like a koala on a branch.
And here I'm standing on a rope bridge between two trees, looking happy.
This is the Aitik open pit mine near Gällivare, in the far north of Sweden. Wow, it's big.
Me standing on a low mountain during a botanical inventory.
The rare plant "fjällbrud" (pyramidal saxifrage), or Saxifraga cotyledon. I climbed a mountain just to see it; unfortunately it's not in flower.
One of the lakes I swam in this summer; this one is below the "fjällbrud" site.
Airing out my feet after climbing the mountain with the rare flower. It took me five hours to climb this mountain--there was no trail and the terrain was very rugged (but admittedly I also spent a lot of time being distracted by interesting plants and other things). It took me an hours to descend on the other side, which had a good trail.
Another rarity: this is the fern Diplazium sibiricum, which only grows in a few places in Sweden. I hitchhiked to get to this site; the people who picked me up asked where I was going, and I explained. They were silent a little while, and then politely said: "I guess that's an interest as good as any." Ha.
The holes that an evil squirrel ate in the bottom of my hammock. Arrrrgh!
A mystery organism. I have no idea what it is; I've just sent away a question to a biologist who I hope can answer.
This is Rönnbäck, the place that a mining company wants to turn into a huge open pit mine like the one pictured earlier.
Me posing with a prospecting stick that the company left behind. We will defeat them like we broke the prospecting stick! The previous photo was taken out on the island in the lake (which is really a hydroelectric dam).
People resting in the sun after climbing a mountain top.
Me smelling a "doftticka" (Haploporus odorus). It's a rare polypore fungus which smells very good, kind of like anise, but sweeter.
Me with the beetle "tallbock", or Monochamus sutor. It has lovely long antennae.
Here's my hammock! It's a Hennessy hyperlite with an extra-large rainfly, and I love it. It's more comfortable than my bed (which possibly says that I ought to get a new bed, whatever).
And last, here's me, having swum in the lake (same lake as last photo). Although "lake" is dignifying it too much--it's a shallow pond full of peat moss, which is why I'm literally crawling up, since it's hard to stand on the bottom.
