Knivsåsen
ridge east of Dalby. Beautiful beech forest, juniper pasture, flora. Nice views from the ridge.

February 20, 2022
A bit raw cold, but anyway a lot of cars in the parking lot. Walks towards the ridge along the quarry, turns off after the quarry towards the field to the east. There is a high cliff, perhaps an older quarry. Lonely trees stand as silhouettes. Behind a lone tree on the field, a man is cooking on a trangia. We go to the stream towards the ridge. Difficult to get over dry shod so we go back along a stone fence. Then north of the quarry and walk along the road back to the parking lot.

April 28, 2021
A while ago. Walks from the quarry through the beech forest. Carpets with white anemones, the most beautiful right now. Walks to the juniper ridge that extends to the pastures. Here blooms pasqueflower. Up on the hill there is a path. Woman walk with a dog. On the slope to the south are all the pasqueflowers, to the north it is empty. Follow the path, go down by the fallen tree at the end of the ridge, go back below the southern slope of the ridge back into the forest.

Arrive at the quarry, go out on the field to the east. There is a stock of cowslips. Through juniper bush up on a hill with a view to the north. Before one climbs into the quarry, pasqueflower blooms. Follow the edge of the quarry back to the parking lot.

May 27, 2017
Drive to the parking lot at Dalby quarry. A lot of people. Loud music. Scratchy. Strange you want to sit with so much junk. Mouse-ear-hawkweed lights up. Youngsters are bathing, jumping from the rocks. Continue on Knivsåsen. Not many people at all. A man wondering "why go abroad when you have all this for free". View, Sticky Catchfly and Meadow Saxifrage blossom, Pasqueflower seeds. Crossing the meadow to Borelund, full of Meadow Buttercup.

May 3, 2015 Pasqueflowers
Ornithogalum boucheanum bloom on the roadside to the car park at Dalby quarry. Following the edge of the quarry to Knivsåsen. On the slope of the ridge sits a couple with a pram. The ridge is covered with a variety of flowering pasqueflower, some becoming out of bloom. Beautifully anyway. Walking on the ridge to the fallen beech, beautiful even in her death. Returning below the ridge, past the shrubbery with sloe. At the stream bloom marsh-marigold. Walking on the eastern edge of the quarry. It's beautiful weather, on a ledge is a few sunbathing. Crosses the pasture overlooking the basin in the north, on the way to Högebjär.

April 2013: Spring at Knivsåsen.
I today hobbled with my bad leg around the Knivsåsen east of Dalby, in search of spring flowers. Felt like the old couple I met, with a cane and supporting each other, they would just up the ridge to see the Pasqueflower flower. What I found? Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem, Pasqueflower, May Flower and Wood Anemone. It is not fully flowering, in a week it's probably splendid. In the newspaper, Sydsvenskan, today it was spring flower pictures from a park in Malmö taken during 38 minutes. I took my four flower pictures in three hours. Most of the time I sat in the lee of the slightly chilly wind from the east behind a juniper, resting sore legs and enjoyed the spring sunshine. There were many who took the opportunity to venture there on this sunny Sunday.

30 April 2010: with Dalby quarry.
I park just before Torna Hällestad east of Dalby. Go south on Skåneleden. Over a ridge with a view to the ridge Knivsåsen. Walk on field to it. Anemones bloom in the grove at the end of the ridge. The ridge is a result of the ice age. The tree at the end of the ridge has fallen, seems to be split. Remember it as a stately tree. What happened? On the slope grow juniper, anemones bloom. Large stocks of pasqueflower, which are on the way to bloom. Goes up on the ridges. A creek meanders on the pasture below. A stile takes me into the beech forest that is shifting into green. Continue on the ridge, down through the forest to former Dalby quarry, today a popular place to bath in. Would never dare to jump into the water from the rocks, but many dares. Not today, it is deserted, too cold. There are steps down to a ledge. I follow the edge of the quarry towards the bay. Here is a large parking lot. It seems to be a little water, the swim platform in the bay is not in the water. What happened? Goes through the beech forest to the 'straight forest road'. There is usually always a dog at a house that yells at me. Not today, not even the house is left. What happened? Turn into the 'straight forest road' towards north. Here is a very beautiful birch grove. I walk from there across the pastures back to the car.

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