I really don’t care about Christmas. Beyond enjoying the many days off that it gives me. Anyway, here’s my Christmas tree. Decoration by nature.

My new neighbours are making me nervous. It’s a bit strange that I can’t get to my house without going through their backyard and it’s also strange that my house is surrounded on three sides by their land (on the fourth side, there’s the field that you’ve seen in a lot of my pictures). And…

I guess you could call it a snow cover. But when you can still see the grass through it… it’s really not much, is it?

There was a pedestrian bridge from the parking to the second floor of the tiny shopping mall in Ljusdal, but in November it crashed down when a truck drove into it (good job – how can a truck get enough speed on this short street to make it come down?). Now they’re apparently arguing whether or…

A very nice sunrise, luckily I still had the reflecting ice to work with in the morning. A bit later we had some snowfall, not much but enough to make the surface white. It’s strange… somehow this darkness has become a standard. Winter is dragging on and there’s less than a week until the shortest…

Another Sunday, another walk. Checked out a side of Mon that I haven’t seen before and this time the visit was quite uneventful. No breaking ice (mostly because I didn’t step on any ice), no stinging bees. But it took me a while to get used to the crunchy sound under my boots, because the…

Some of my summer flowers are still standing, yay! (And that was sarcasm, in case you didn’t catch it.) (So was that.)

Ice is alive. Changes in the temperature and changes in the water level shape the ice and make it change its structure. As I was watching the ice here, I saw the white part moving… the ice is layered and there’s water in between layers that slowly flowed so the white part was changing shape. The…