2021 NH Spring/SH Fall Photo Thread (spoilers please!)

Some trees are starting to stick out from the dormant woods now. Not quite as apparent in camera though compared to irl


Most bird cherries have a yellowish tint still, at least when the sun is directly behind you, since the leaves aren't generally completely opened, and so the buds themselves as well as the undeveloped flowers kinda outshine the leaves themselves at times.


You never really notice how purple bare trees are, especially birches, with your naked eye.



How does this even happen?


My friend and I were on our way to the rapids. Wanted to walk along the river but there were soooo many fallen trees, so we couldn't bother. We've had tons of very strong winter storms in the last two years. The river bank slopes are really prone to landslides as well. In the distance you can see one of the biggest engineering failures in recent Swedish memory. The bridge, that's supposed to make up the final link in the ring-road around Umeå, has gone over budget by so much, and it's been subject to like three different landslides in the last year. Then, sometime this fall as they were trying to extend one of the pieces, the breaks didn't work properly so they lost control and a major part of the bridge got deformed beyond salvation. After that, they started proposing that it might be more cost-efficient to simply scrap the entire bridge and build a new one.


Rapids. Very low flow rate and water level, which seems strange considering how much snow there is all along its entire drainage basin that stretches all the way to the Norwegian border.


Larch blossom


I like these trees


A non-native type of maple, bearded maple, starting to open its flower buds.


Low flow rate in the rapid


Very weird birch. Notice the stalactite!


This was one of the rare occasions where you could actually walk across to the other side of the river. Normally there's too much water for that.


These are the pools that me and my friend love to bathe in during summer. The water gets really warm, for quite understandable reasons.


Maybe Moron thinks this is cool, idk


Big rock


Clearly not much of a rapid atm. I have seen lower water levels though, one time you couldn't even really see any water at all around that rockier area towards the back, and a bunch of diseased salmon would get caught there and just swim around in circles on their sides. Some of the dam levels, with pools maybe 8x8m big, could have like 6 sick looking salmons floating around in the 40cm deep water.


Arboretum, not as vibrant and green as Wildcat's


I really like the feel and look of this place regardless.


Snow looks the best when it's only partial, and during strong sunlight, imo.


I really love this particular spot.


And one pro of most trees being bare is that you get a much better view.


These junipers were growing upwards as trees rather than bushes. That's very rare in Sweden except in the far south.


A more springlike spot


Sorry if most of my shots are vertical. For most of the scenes I shoot, I think the vertical aspect ratio is more aesthetic. Doesn't look nice on a computer screen, but on the other hand it looks great on a phone. I mostly view this forum, and the photo threads, on my phone myself, don't know about you guys.


Yummy


"Path closed. These stairs are in very poor condition, therfore we have decided to close it alltogether." Huh 🤔🤔🤔


Lots of tiny leaves.


Less tiny leaves on the elder trees.


Another pretty springlike scene.


And another


Very nice view from the inn on the top of the tall river bank




Found this absolutely disgusting webbing of some sort. No idea what it is.


Landslide


Another landslide


Long way down


That last landslide I showed was pretty significant, and must've been recent as well. It's flowed down and ruined a section of the arboretum, and destroyed a kiwi bush (hardy kiwi). I liked that bush, I'd always grab the tiny kiwi berries in fall.


The clouds got thicker as we started to head over to the other side of the river.


Significantly more snow there


This looks like something straight out of Skyrim. There used to be a huge log industry around Umeå. This little community is named after the log industry.


Was really nice here. We felt like we were the only ones around for miles.


I took this picture and noticed just how tall this tree looks next to my friend.


big skateboard ramp


It's a couple hundred meters long, and it's a pretty cool thing to explore, especially as a kid. This time there was a bunch of snow though, and a tree in the way, so we couldn't bother going down the entire thing. Oh, and in case you wondered what it actually is, it was used to transport logs. Basically a massive water slide for logs.


Then eventually we started getting really cold since we'd been outside for over 10 hours, and especially towards the end we'd mostly just been sitting still, despite it only being around 5'C and us wearing pretty thin jackets. This was 21.15


Interestingly enough, this place seemed a little further along actually than in the city, on the south-facing slopes at least.

Cool views of Lake Albano & Nemi—both of which are volcanic lakes






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