Here in Sweden we have a concept called aprilväder, April weather. It could be anything – cold and snowing, warm and sunny, and anything in between. Sometimes during the same day. Last year around this time I was wearing a t-shirt while cycling. Today it was snowing. Well ok to be fair, it was the 25th when I was wearing a t-shirt last year and the weather can change a few times and back again in four days. But for the looks of it, the t-shirt has to wait.

I think every April for as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve complained how difficult it is to find anything to shoot. The landscape is looking just awful and only the earliest flowers are in bloom (but how exciting is it to shoot crocuses and coltsfoot every year?). There’s one major exception to the dreariness – snowfall. The April snow can pile up quickly and it can disappear almost as soon so you have to make the most of it while it’s there. I took my first picture before 8 am, although it’s almost cheating… this old wagon is standing right outside my house. I thought I would wait until summer to shoot it, but now as it was covered in snow, it made a fine subject. And just as well that I shot it early, because by the time I came back, the snow on it had already melted.

When I got down to the floodplains by the river, I found a pair of cranes. They were on the other side of this small patch of wetland so I had trouble reaching them with my 125mm but I’m wondering if they’re actually nesting there. They were not in a hurry to move away, one of them walked back and forth for a couple of times before it disappeared. But those floodplains… could be worth the effort to take the 300mm lens there some day.