We spent Wednesday in Sweden, arriving in Malmo from Copenhagen, and then going on to Lund, a university town that's been compared to Oxford. I didn't see many similarities, but I did enjoy Lund very much. We spent several hours at the Kulturen Museum, an outdoor museum made up of some 30 buildings, each filled with fascinating exhibits of Swedish life and culture through the ages.
It was in the farming area where I came across this lone female duck, splashing in the water of a small pond as if she hadn't a care in the world—and, being as she lived in Sweden, where the standard of living is very high for both humans and ducks, she probably didn't.
After ducking and diving in the water for a few minutes, she jumped out of the pool and dried her feathers, preening and stroking her beautiful self. Then she flew away, a somewhat cumbersome flight, across the grounds of the museum.
Here are some more photos I got of her—another woman was watching me, wondering no doubt what the silly American woman was doing taking dozens of photos of a duck.
But such an enchanting creature surely deserves a few pixels, don't you think?
Showing off, Swedish-style
Her head disappears into her feathers as she dries off from her dip.
