It’s the last day of the Easter break, thank god! I can’t take this any more. Grey skies, wind, warm temperatures, this is the worst Easter since… ehrm… well, it hasn’t been a good Easter. We’re supposed to have sunshine! So today I gave up. I had planned to go skiing but I just simply couldn’t be bothered. So I went for a walk instead, and found swans and other birds (I think mallards, I didn’t have binoculars so I can’t be sure) in the big area of open water in the south-east end of Funäsdalssjön. And roe deer grazing in the dead grass.

Next weekend it’s April, the second most useless month of the year. Or that’s how I’m used to thinking about it anyway, maybe it’s a bit more useful up here because we still have plenty of snow so the skiing season isn’t over by any means, even if I surrendered today. I’m looking forward to summer but I’m not ready to give up on winter yet, I only wish that the time in between those seasons is much shorter here in the mountains than it was in Hälsingland, where spring lasted longer than winter did.