I hope you’re not getting tired of swan pictures yet… I’m not! Yesterday I took the Mega-Tamron to Tevsjön, which is still mostly covered in ice, but with a few open patches (in fact, some parts of the lake almost didn’t freeze at all in the winter). So naturally the waterfowl use the lake as a resting…
Went for a drive in the evening, in search of birds. I found some, but nothing I could shoot, so I used my telephoto to do a panorama instead. They’ve cut some forest along the gravel road to Tännäs, and the view is spectacular – you can see everything from Stor-Mittåkläppen in the north-west, to…
The migratory birds like the golf course in the spring, so I do my evening promenades there with the Mega-Tamron as company. There’s not a lot of action as yet, I’ve seen some occasional cranes there but yesterday I only heard them in the distance. What I did get instead was three swans on the…
Just like last spring, the roe deer are spending a lot of time in the fields around the house. I see them every day now, at most it was eight of them but in recent days the biggest group has consisted of six individuals. Sometimes it’s only two, sometimes three, so I’m not sure if we…
A new track popped up on the map this year. They are now preparing the trail between Fjällnäs and Svalåtjärnen, previously it’s only been a back country trail but now it’s prepared, and of course I just had to ski it. The only question was, how I’m going to arrange it… use the ski bus…
The landscape is big and I’ve often marvelled at how little you see people up on the mountain when the parking lot at the trail head is full of cars. But then there are exceptions, of course. Like the Easter week, which is no doubt the busiest week up here when absolutely everyone who can,…
After a very warm March which almost got me thinking that we’d have no snow left for Easter, we now have winter again. I woke up to a white landscape, even the trees were decorated! But even if the thermometer insisted that it was below freezing, the intense April sun only needed half a chance and the snow…
Spring is on the way and it’s time to start keeping an eye out for the migratory birds. I took the Mega-Tamron out for a walk, I knew that there were swans in the open water in Ljusnedalssjön. I found two pairs of swans, a bit sad that there were no young birds, but then…
It’s been very warm (as in, above freezing) lately and the snow is disappearing fast, but there’s plenty of it left for some great skiing today. I took the bus to Bruksvallarna and then skied to Funäsdalen via Andersborg, this is what we call the ”Solskensturen” (except that normally people finish in Tänndalen but I pushed…
Should’ve checked the weather forecast beyond just looking at the sun symbol. I had a really mean head wind once I got out of the forest and I had to push myself even when going down a hill. But then when I was back in the forest with the wind on my back and skiing…