Chilly Day

This was my bedroom window yesterday morning. It was a chilly start to the day. The house is old, built by my great grandparents 120 years ago. Double glazing, but from way back when. Supposed to me much warmer today. The forecast says 0C around noon.

Bird spotting

Bird up a frosty tree at the 700-year-old Nedersta farm. There used to be an old barn here, but it collapsed a number of years ago after a snow storm.

Frosty Window

I live in an old house. Built by my great-grandparents 120 years ago. Obviously, it has been renovated over the years, but there is always something that needs fixing. This was my bedroom window yesterday morning. Another -15C day.

A sudden change in the weather

Frost everywhere earlier in the week. I decided to stop by a favorite nature reserve that I have shown you many times before. Rudan. Two lakes, beaches, and a lot of forest, just a short walk from the commuter station in Handen. I stopped at four places and took the first winter-like photos of the season.It was ery slippery at the rocks so I fell and hurt myself both here and there. Anywho, this is a beach abstract that I shot at the sandy beach at the Lower Lake.

The Red Stable

A photo from my walk around Tungelsta two days ago. Much of the recent snow had melted but a sudden change in the weather had turned the landscape white again, this time with the help of the frost that covered everything. This is the little red stable at Nödesta Västergård that I tend to photograph every now and then. To see all the all photos of the stable feel free to press here.

Frost-covered leaf

Yesterday morning it was -10C from a somewhat clear sky. This morning 4C from a very gray sky.

Frostbite

Too cold for this photographer this Winter.

Monochrome Frost

My neighbour can be a bit weird. To prevent people from walking across his property,(a tiny forest, not used by anyone for anything, not counting the wildlife), he has had his employees cut down trees and place them on the path to make it trickier to walk there. Obviously no one cares about that and people walk there every day. This is a photo of one such tree. Shot with the new 60mm lens.

Winter is coming

A cold morning

Bit of a cold morning. Took a walk with the new 60mm macro lens. This was the first photo, aiming my lens at a common hazel.

Frosty Fence

Cold and frosty today. And extremely foggy. You could hardly see anything, but I did manage to get a few photos, despite my fingers freezing to ice within seconds as I had to take off my gloves to get the camera working. This is a fence on the bridge crossing the railway at the Tungelsta commuter station.

It's getting colder again

From a visit to the nature park Slätmossen. I often photograph the greenery from the little bridge but on this day I focused on the leaf on the railing.

Mind Your Step

A thin layer of frost covering the pier at the semi-frozen Lower Lake Rudan on my visit yesterday. I had to watch my step as one plank was missing. And yes, it was a cold bike ride!

Conveyor Belt

Do you need a crusher? A machine that will help you make gravel from rocks? Well yes of course you do, who doesn't? Then this is your lucky day because I know where you can find one. It's been sitting unused for many years in a forested area in Tungelsta. This is how the rusty conveyor belt looked a few days ago when there was a thin layer of snow/frost on it. I had to shoot it one-handedly but it came out pretty much as I wanted it to.

Frosty Mirror

We are experiencing a cold spell. Around -10C when I took this photo of a traffic mirror along Söderbyvägen in Tungelsta yesterday.

Frosty Grass Straw

After shooting the old tree in yesterdays post I decided to locate the odd looking grass straw I found here back in July. It grows just beside the path and I had no trouble finding it. The Timotej sure looks different today compared with how it looked back in the Summer.

That Old Tree

This was how the old tree, the Swedish Whitebeam at Välsta looked at my last visit a while back. It was one of those really cold, but beautiful winter days. If you need a more recent weather update I can tell you that it is raining today. From a very grey sky. The snow is melting as we have had a couple of days with around +2C.

Poetic word of the day

On my coldest winter promenade so far this year I shot a lot of photos like this one. Soft rime on all the trees. We have a more poetic name for it in Swedish. We call it Rimfrost. The temperature was -15C. But thanks to the sun that shone from a blue sky it didnt feel that cold, but I was of course wearing many layers of clothing!

Frost Flowers

It's been cold the last few days. As I'm typing this it is -14C. So you need to dress correctly while out shooting. It's not really my kind of weather, but if you can't beat them...

I was out looking for hoarfrost photos recently. It is always fascinating to zoom in on white ice crystals like the ones you see here.

It's freezing here