2018 NH Spring / SH Autumn Photo Thread

Can you imagine the smell of this white tree?


Last year these birches turned into weirwood due to obscene cold with -6'C in May, snow, frost in June etc. This was last July.



They have a little redder leaves than normal birches, so I assume it's some kind of blood birch or something, but at least so far it's not nearly weirdwood red.

Some convective clouds this afternoon:

Some pics from pine forests near Harku:



Very nice, I wish Jüri looked more like this. It mostly looks like some boring German deciduous forest.

Another one from earlier, inside the woods.

A couple of pics from walks today. It was a sunny morning but clouded over around midday, so the 2nd pic wasn't as good as it could've been.

Pics from a little more than 10 days ago just SW of Paris on a 25°C+ day:







Nice sunken lane





Love May, everything is green and lush.







Then went to the North Sea coast. It was quite hazy, but only around 12-13°C.







Now this is what I call a decent beach. The Riviera could do with one of these.





Water temp around 12°C. Gimme the warm Mediterranean back. 





"Hey Nancy, look at that perv on the pier taking pics of us".







Nice town nearby, not so nice weather





13°C high and slate grey overcast while Paris and London were basking in sun and 20°C+ temps.

Some stuff from 11-16 May:

Hasn't swum in this lake just yet, but looked pretty nice over there in Jönåker:





13/5:

Tried my luck in this one though and been there five times since, a bit above 12 miles from here:



14/5:

Took a picture of the artificial beach the next day:



15/5:

Was too tired to push third day in a succession going home those 12 miles in return so I took plenty of pictures either on or off the bike:

A little panorama off the bike first:







Then some nice onboard footage:



Jumped off to take a picture of these three horses, once of whom a very cute foal:



Onboard footage once more through this typical interior forest around here, very lush this time of the year, especially for a "cold desert"...



Pretty nice alley especially when wind permits, also a small reservoir (probably for agriculture) to the right:



Relatively newly planted forest up over the two farms Stockängen (Stock Meadow); (Large and Small):



Here is the actual Stock Meadow:



The straight where an elk mother and her two small elks crossed the road in front of me the day before, much calmer this time:



16/5:

Let's just call Norrköping's downtown green:

^ had the same thought