Calling for the cuckoo
Annika Göran2024-06-02T11:04:34+00:00All morning and all evening he sits and sings during the spring evenings. I sat down early one morning on May 16 and called to see how he would react. It didn't take long before
Singing with bumblebees
Annika Göran2024-06-02T10:59:38+00:00For a very short period in May, the maples flower. This is just what the newly awakened bumblebees and bees need. It sounds as if the whole tree is feeding on their song. A low
Playing with a Blackbird
Annika Göran2024-06-02T10:55:19+00:00One morning on May 16, I went out into the birch forest to see if I could get a conversation with the Blackbird that I heard singing there. I sat for an hour and the
Singing with Loons
Annika Göran2024-06-02T10:50:51+00:00On the morning of May 9 I had a conversations down at the at the lake Sången with Gavia stellata, the red-throated loon. They respond with their ancient cries as if from another world.
Singing with cranes/Annika Göran Rodell
Annika Göran2024-06-02T10:31:12+00:001 May I had a conversation with the otherwise shy cranes that were visiting the meadow
20 – 24 May / Southern winds brings swirling swifts
Annika Göran2024-05-24T18:41:44+00:00I'm standing outside the house, barefoot in the grass. Feeling the warm southern winds caress my cheeks. The ear perceives it first, a quick sucking sound of birds sweeping close over my head. Then I
A good life – Artful Leadership for Change
Annika Göran2024-05-22T19:53:01+00:00Conversations on the Blue Sofa. part 87 #sangshyttanart #gerdgoran #sgoodlife #annikagoranrodell
15 – 19 May / Dandelion blooms between Mayday tree and Lilac
Annika Göran2024-05-17T19:10:26+00:00Back in the 17th century, a French shoemaker is said to have put a sign on his door that read: free between Mayday tree (Prunus padus) and Lilac (Syringa vulgaris). Not a very long vacation
10 – 14 May / The cuckoo seals our fate
Annika Göran2024-05-17T18:51:08+00:00From where we hear the cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, determines our fate. Its distinctive sound echoes across the land, we listen to the direction and then we rhyme. Södergök - dödergök (south- death), norrgök - sorggök
5 – 9 May / Maple flower song with bumblebees
Annika Göran2024-05-11T11:01:49+00:00It's a healing sound to sit under the maple (acer) and listen to the bumblebees (bombus) buzzing around the maple's newly opened flowers. A few days and an opportunity for nectar before the leaves begins