2018 NH Summer/SH Winter Photo Thread

10 months later and some trees are still recovering from the hurricane

Today we stayed in a little house we have up on the mountains, just above my village at about 1000 m of altitude. That area used to have a lot of inhabitants during the summer months, but practically the all of them returned back to the bottom of the valley during the winter months. In practice during the agriculture season the population spread over the largest area possible, looking for other fields and grazing lands by moving at higher altitudes, while during the winter they preferred to remain in the low altitude area.
After WWII the economy completely changed and there was no more reason to do so, but the houses over there remained. Many were abandoned and now are basically ruins reconquered by the woods, but some (like the house where we went) were preserved and are now used as summer houses.

Some hold houses ruins, with trees growing within their original perimeter:






The restructured houses instead look like this:




Some paths in the woods:




^there are quite a lot of nettles, but there should be a quite large path over there




Looking toward the bottom of the valley:

^ the trees were cut down along that direction because of the power line, there is also a hydroelectric plant at the bottom. 

Trees:

Fishing at Copeton Dam, NSW (S of Inverell); 663 m AMSL; 29° 55' S; I was inactive on this forum for four days since Thursday because of the non-existant internet, if you haven't noticed already. Fucken enjoyed it though! This was our cabin—although these pictures are only of the area itself, I have plenty more of the drive to and from here along the way—also, whatever I don't catch, was already recorded on my dash cam:




Croatia vs Russia:



Now for the fishing; 598 m AMSL; 29° 56' S; pictured below are a few silver perch, but unfortunately the Queenslander dickhead caught all the Murray Cod & Yellowbellies. Unfortunately, too, I did not take any pictures of our 1st fishing (drizzly, rainy & squally) or 3rd fishing (clear & squally) for the fear of my tablet falling overboard; as you can plainly see, it was rather calm when I took this one (2nd fishing) on Saturday:





This bloody box is our sounder; water temperature 56.5° F; water depth 16.2 ft:

Went to my Grandma's by the sea. Can't get enough of deciduous forests.


Her plums seem to be coming along just fine, along with her cherries. Her pear tree doesn't have any pears though. Plums. Btw, excuse me if these images look overly edited. They aren't. My smartphone seems to prefer them looking like that.


Sea. As is very typical for Sweden is shallow water extending far out. Often you can go 100m out and still have water barely up to your chest.


Found this one at the University. Does anyone know what it is? Same size as cherries or plums, but doesn't look quite like them. Could these be pear? A lot smaller than apples are currently though...


Really shitty image, but most cherries turned various degrees of red during the drought. Some, like this one, turned completely red, but has some vibrant green leaves from more recent rains.


We've had a dozen millimeters of rain the last few weeks, but we still didn't quite manage to revert the drought, and now with the warm sunny days it's starting to look a bit dry again. This is what grass looks like; mostly green to a dry pale green with yellow patches.


This lawn was looking very dry.


I like Swedish meadows. These are in an industry shopping area. Almost reminded me of the beautiful meadows surrounding Visby's old town.


Found a wild oak that wasn't a sapling. About 3x2m. How common are adult oak trees in the wild around Trondheim, Nidaros?


Found a pretty nice little neighborhood. I really like low but wide houses, and I like when they aren't normal wooden houses typical to Sweden.



Umeå doesn't exactly have a dramatic landscape, but apart from the city center down by the river, I wouldn't exactly call it flat.


Walked a lap through the forest track around the lake. About 10km or something like that. It was about 25'C, sunny and almost no wind whatsoever. Pretty sweaty. Not all of it was this dense, so you often got to walk in the sun even in the woods.


Saw this bough and was like uh what? You couldn't see that it had broken from the side I came from.


It isn't very clear on this image, but there were about 4-5 trees in a cluster with some or all of their leaves red-brown from drought.


Looking from the southernmost part toward the northernmost part of the lake which its longest direction.

Drought watch 2018. After average rain in June the nature managed to take another breath, but it's gonna have to hold it through a week of sunshine and upper 20's now, and it's already reverted back to the peak drought level of early June. Since April, we've had about half the normal rainfall amount.







I don't know if it's a normal ash or if it's a certain cultivar,  but it looks super exotic to me, almost like some banana palmy thing.


Cherries starting to turn shades of orange and red. These ones are super small compared to most cherries here though.


Very large chestnut tree, with two huge elms to the side.



Very large oak on this person's yard.


Haven't seen this before. Some kind of bloom - on the river.

Afternoon, about 27c.





Evening, on the river, about 25c

Visited my new workplace today. Nice trees. Temp 25C:

Irregularly cloudy sky today, and the clouds seem quite high too.






Butterfly on lavender