Advik put on the new anklets I bought for him, and looked more of a laddu than ever:

Meanwhile, Sumana’s masala rice was excellent:

The colours of summer beckoned us outdoors.

Creatures such as this

DAMSELFLY

rewarded our outing!

Wildflowers grew in their hundreds, adding beauty to the meadows. This looked like Queen Anne's Lace,but was perhaps something else: Buttercups shone golden in the sun: Daisies daily: Honeysuckle spread its heady scent: Waterlilies bloomed in the pond: Ferns were lovely, too: A duck sat rock-still: Rain was not very far away, but held off: Mallard female: Mallard male: A baby WHITE WAGTAIL strutted about: while the mother brought food: GULLS posed: JACKDAWS with their white eyes were everywhere! A FINCH female peeked at me: Then she watched a BLACKBIRD bathing: EURASIAN TREE SPARROWS were everywhere: WOOD PIGEONS walked along: EURASIAN MAGPIES are the crows of this area: I saw my first FIELDFARES: These are thrushes and behave exactly as our thrushes do back home, turning over the leaf-litter and foraging. A HOODED CROW was a hidden crow, in the foliage: Babies were everywhere...these nymphs will grow up soon enough! Some acquatic flower that I don't know the name of: The greenery was lush and inviting: A flowing stream: and a fish in it:

The water in the stream made for an abstract picture:

Look at the common birds that I’ve seen in Sweden

here

The FB album of the short walk

here