2018 NH Summer/SH Winter Photo Thread

Out in the country, if it isn't a conifer, it's a birch or aspen, none of which make it seem less boreal.

I don't know if it's because I didn't see clouds for like a month, but every cloudy day here seems to have very cool clouds. Took a road I'd never gone on yesterday with the bike and dog. Didn't even know if it would lead back again.


Strange to see a forest this dense with nothing but birches. Almost reminds me of when I went to Kebnekaise except these ones are denser, higher, and actually straight instead of stumped.



I've never seen this kind of thing before. Rows of planted pine of some kind and larch.


Strange being around Tavelsjö with unfamiliar views.


Path eventually led into the forest. All moss is dead from the drought.



Saw all these dead trees.


Had to get close and investigate. Seems the pond turned into a swampy lake. Pair of cranes there.


Strangely enough the pine forest dismantled eventually and turned into an atypical mixed forest for forest paths. Idk why it was atypical, just felt surprisingly dense. Forests here tend to be pretty sparse.


After a very long dog bike (I was out biking for maybe 1.5h) I emerged on the opposite side of one of the valleys I always photograph. Can you imagine how much of a frost hollow this valley is?

Is it me or does that first picture show very slight signs of rotation?

Yeah, it looks like it's some kind of rotating cloud, but it wasn't windy where I was at, and it wasn't overtly rotating atleast

Nice sunset this evening.

I still find it fascinating seeing it that bright around midnight. Here atm that's what it looks like at around 5pm.


"This is a reinactment of what would happen to a *insert a string of 100 leftie referencing words like vegan latte sipping etc.* like me in a perfect world ruled by Cules and AW."

Today we finally picked the cherries from grandpa tree!



^ cherries are not an easy fruit to pick, because the trees tend to be quite tall and with thin branches. In fact we only managed to pick the one from the lowest branches.



^ it is a particular variety of cherries, it is a little darker than the most diffused ones and a little less sweet. It is a variety of "amarene".


^ we nearly filled the bucket, not bad.


The scenery around there was quite interesting too:


^ the river has so little water because it is deviated to an hydroelectric plant, we actually have plenty of water in this moment.






Extra picture: my cat doesn't like to be touched


(Uhm, I should bring with me some sunscreen too...)

must be frustrating to have so much dramatic clouds but no rain. Really looks like rain ought to happen soon with that. Clearly raining in the second to last photo in the distance. Showers must be too isolated

This is the little palm tree which is has been growing in that weird spot of our garden for the last 5 years or so, even if no one remember to have planted any palm tree. Our suspect is that someone threw a seed (for example of a date fruit) and then it somehow started to grow where it was. I'm still amazed by how it survived our winter, we surely don't live at the north pole but last winter had a couple of interesting cold and snowy spells.