2019 NH Summer / SH Winter Photo Thread

some photos from Long Island from mid-June. Port Jefferson



Caumsett park, on the north shore near Huntington







sandy cliffs make interesting flow patterns with water





birds on a rock





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northport

🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 Care to take your torched summer grass back from us? 



Here are pics from Russia! Leaving Moscow:





Buildings in the outskirts of Moscow. Not many houses in the suburbs, but rather huge tower blocks. Russia lacks space.





Strange sight the next morning. Church got flooded by a dam built but on the Volga under Stalin.





These ones haven't been flooded.







Mmh the weather isn't looking good.





Rumbles of thunder are getting louder.





Better take shelter before the hailstorm hits.





Obviously it was a good idea.











Awesome weather 





Abandoned isba. Moved to one of the brand new tower blocks in Moscow?





In Soviet Russia, radioactive rain dries your clothes.





The unaptly named White Lake





Windstorm on the shores of the lake









Much more empty than Moscow region of course:









Kizhi, @ 62 N





Linden church







You've got those Scandinavian-style fences there too:



























Nice evening light















Got a storm over Lake Onega about 1 hour later





Mmh yeah it's a big lake.





Convection at mid-levels





Random village





The factory looked abandoned, but there's smoke coming out of it.





Fancy dachas







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Looks like we're gonna get rained on again?







The sauna (banya), complete with a duckboard to the lake to cool off.





Looks like the pics nei posts from Boston suburbs:





Art nouveau dacha!







Local fauna







Convective skies over the Svir river





Shower missed us









Noice!

Thanks 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿! That part felt quite remote, nice change from the big cities.

Kebnekaise trip will have to wait because those pictures are on my DSLR. I went to Visby with just my phone though, so I'm ready to share those now.

Gotland, at least the Visby area of Gotland (can't really speak for the rest of the island), really has a completely different look to anywhere else I've been in Sweden. Lots of thorny shrubs, fruit trees like apple, and herbs and stuff.


A bunch of tall yellow grass


Doesn't really look like anywhere else I've been in Europe. Some of the yellow grass fields resemble France and western Europe a bit, but then there's a lot of this too.



Sea and thorny herby rosey shrubbery

Interestingly enough, just 100m away from where these pictures were taken, there was this forest. I've never been in such a lush forest in my entire life. Feels almost temperate rainforesty. So much ivy. Amazing.


Never seen anything like it anywhere else in Sweden. Oh, did I mention we were in Visby during the medieval week. That's why my ex is wearing a medieval dress.


Visby is built on limestone from when it used to lie by the equator 400 million years ago. Lots of cliffs and rock formations.


Visby also has a whole oldtown surrounded by a medieval city wall. 


This summer in Visby has been pretty wet. July was the wettest since 2012 and May had twice the average. June was pretty average though. Considering how thr island had had severe water deficits every summer for the last few years, like clockwork, some were probably relieved. I however, think it looks wrong with green grass there. The grass is supposed to be pretty yellow, but all the green grass this summer broke the illusion that we were abroad somewhere exotic.


For reference, this is how it usually looks. Or at least this is the view I have in my mind of it. Maybe the average is not quite as dry as this first picture but still. Next picture is probably more "average". These two are not my pictures of course.


This is the same view as on the picture above, but seen from the opposite side.


Inside the wall.


Lots of cosy alleys of old houses.




I've never seen so much ivy in one place in my life. What the fuck? That ball is not a tree, it's the ivy surrounding an ash.


Visby is also named The Town of Roses



Tbh, most of the rose-like flowers in the old-town weren't actually roses but this kind of flower whatever it's called. Natural vegetation is filled with rose species though.


The most dominant tree in gardens in Visby seems to be English Walnut. Pear, apple, and ash were also common. Then there were a few fig trees as well. Never saw any planted in the middle of lawns though, all of those I saw were on people's private property, and apart from one tree, they were all against walls and bushes and stuff, like the one in this picture.


The most exotic (and strange) thing I saw in Visby however, was these two fucking parrots chilling in a tree on a random guy's yard. There was no fence, no net, no nothing. They just sat there in the tree and quacked or whatever it is parrots do.


We went to a yard sale in someone's backyard. What a backyard!

Visby's botanical garden. Nice garden.


Medieval market


And the medieval camp we stayed in. Ominous looking clouds.

Nice pics Babu . Visby looks pretty cool and definitely has a subtropical vibe to it.

You fucked your cute ex-girlfriend under those subtropical vegetations and 18C nights, didn't you? Be honest now, lad.

Today we did a short trip on the mountains around here. As usual we have being super-lazy in planning our trips, so we choose a place we could reach by car in less than one hour. This time, we went to a small lake at about 1800 m of altitude owned by the local fishermen association.





The road to this place passes through a larches forest, a very nice place.



Someone interested into mountain bike paths? This was used for a competition a couple of weeks ago, I was told.


The view around the lake was very nice, lots of good points for watching the rest of the valley below you.








^ that tiny village is the smallest municipality in Italy, it makes about 30 inhabitants (of which about 10 stable ones who remain also during the winter)


^ According to my dad, there used to be a glacier between those two peaks, which used to be well visible even in the middle of the summer from that position. Even turning around, it seems completely gone now :/


We didn't manage to get too close to the lake itself because it is a private property and to don't bother the people fishing in there, anyway I managed to take some pictures from the path. As you can notice, it is a small artificial lake.