My sister and her daughter came for a visit. So on Thursday I drove home, picked them up in Ljusdal, then we drove to the cabin for a couple of days and back home, I left them off in Ljusdal this morning so now the house is quiet and I am the master of my own time again… no more waiting, no more having to take other people in consideration, no more noise. It shows that I’m a loner. I can only be comfortable in other loners’ company (bit of an oxymoron?). Put me among social people and I’ll be fighting a panic attack.

But anyway, it was nice to have them here and show them some of the places I love so much here, it’s somehow important for me that my family understands why I prefer to stay in Sweden rather than move back to Finland.

The weather in the mountains was just about the same it had been in the previous days, so I certainly didn’t lose any special light while my visitors were here. The only pictures worth mentioning were taken in Järvzoo yesterday, we were lucky with the bear cubs which were in a playful mood (the action was too fast to keep up) and got to see a small musk ox calf. But the most special thing was the wolf cubs. In the upper enclosure where they feed the wolves, the keeper told us that they are not expecting the cubs to come down to eat until later in the summer. Fair enough. On our way out, we stopped at the café at the lower wolf enclosure (there’s a new café which is open in the summer). We took a window seat inside so we could look straight down to the enclosure and to my amazement, I saw five wolf cubs lie right below the window! Of course, from the wolves’ point of view, this is the furthest and most remote corner of the enclosure so this is where they hide the cubs. They didn’t count in the bird’s eye view… There was an emergency exit which gave me a view to the cubs so I didn’t have to shoot through the window. It’s not my favourite angle to shoot straight down at an animal, but then for a second, the cub looked up at me and I forgot about the angle. Sweet!