For my weekend excursions, I pretty much only have two directions to choose from. I can go north-west to the Kvarnsjön lake, or south-west to the Älgsjön lake (my favourite). There used to be a third option to the east down to the Loossjön lake, but I think there was a dispute with the land owner or something and the trail was closed off a couple of years ago. Now the only way to get to Loossjön is a big and boring detour so I don’t bother with it. I’ve got a few options to vary these two trail options but by and large, it’s the same week after week. Despite that, I never come home with the same pictures I took the week before. Ok yeah it’s a lot of snow and a lot of trees, but it’s not the same snow and it’s not the same trees. And sometimes it’s sunny, sometimes cloudy, and sometimes snowing. There are so many ways for the landscape to transform that a scene that didn’t earn a second look before is now a stand-out. And then there are some scenes that I look at every time because I can see the potential but the conditions just never are quite right for a picture, so maybe, maybe, next week…

Today’s target was Kvarnsjön. The trail there was the same old same old but at the lake, I found something new. I’ve often mentioned the creek that flows out from the lake (in the east, reached from the road), but at the west end of the lake where the trail leads there’s another creek and I decided to follow it upstream. It’s been cold enough for the creek to ice over apart from a few fast flowing sections, but I was still amazed by what I was seeing. There’s so much potential that I’ll be visiting again, maybe in March when the temperatures allow the creek to stay open, and then some new snow to decorate the trees… it will look nothing short of gorgeous!