Biking through Dyrehave

4 May 2010

We took a few hours out in the middle of the day on Tuesday for a 15-mile bike ride.



In all, we were five: Ingrid, Charlie, and I rode along with Geo and Jørn. The route was a loop trip eastward through the Dyrehave and then north via bike route 9 (nearby the railroad tracks that lead up to Helsingor), heading southwest along a beautiful bike path, and finally traveling due south along a dirt road through the forest to the Mølleådalen.



This loop became one of my favorite rides when we stayed in Denmark for almost three months in the fall of 2006. The photos include some of my favorite photography sites from that visit. The opening photo shows a lone tree on a small island of a small pond at Hjortekaer in the NW corner of Dyrehave. You can see two earlier shots of this same scene here and here. The second photo is a stately old tree in the NE portion of the park whose dropped branches look like welcoming arms.



The third photo depicts the lovely tree-lined bike path along which we begin our return. The fourth photo is my favorite, with the beautiful white flowers on the forest floor complementing the lovely new green foliage.



The final two shots in this set were taken near a mill pond toward the end of the ride, where we stopped for lunch. (This point marked the end of my ride, because I got a flat tire here and had to be rescued by Gabriel driving a DTU van.) I like the impressionistic air created in the reflection of the northern trees with bright blue sky and white clouds off the slightly foamy surface just below the spillway from the mill pond. The swan in the final photo was very protective of his territory and so this close up was snapped under conditions that were a bit too close for comfort!



By the way, if you use Google Images to search on "mølleådalen," two of my photos show up on the first page. They are shots that I posted at the Trek Earth site. That's cool. Click on the links to see.
Orange house in the fall.
Rådvad in the spring.