Bird tracks in the snow

It looked a bit artistic to me. The snow covers a big greenhouse that is not heated during the winter. Most likely it was a crow that landed there and skidded around a bit.

Still Winter

After clearing away a lot of snow so that I can get in and out of the house, which made me quite warm, I cooled down by pressing my face into the snow. As one does, at least if you are anti-snow. It does hurt a little, but there you go.

A Winter photo

It started to snow a few days ago. Never much fun. Chaos in the traffic everywhere. Many people stuck out on the roads for many hours and through the night. Mostly because big trucks got stuck. Everyone blaming each other for it. As in the norm these days. Not so bad in and around Stockholm, though. And today, this Sunday morning all the snow is gone and as I am getting ready to go for a snow free bike ride it is maybe 3C. I took this snow photo yesterday when it was still a bit chilly.

Caught in the spider's web

-1C this morning. Took a short promenade in the forest just now, so this photo is ten minutes old. Because of the very light snow fall, you could see the many spiderwebs covered with the white stuff.

Four photos with Aprilväder

April weather, anything can happen, and it usually does. I still have a few posts with photos from last week to show you, from when it was warm and sunny and all that good stuff. But then this happened yesterday. Winter returned, well it was already there since a few days, but I looked at the forecast and it said that just maybe this would be the last snow of the season so I decided to walk over to the old tree.

A walk in the park

This was the scene in the park in Tungelsta yesterday morning. So we got a white Christmas after all. It was -9C when I snapped this photo. The plan was to walk over to the old tree for a snow photo of it, but it was way too cold for that, so I might try that later today. Glad fortsättning as we say here the day after Julafton.

Winter

Benches at Nederstaleden in Västerhaninge. I have been known to stop here while out on long bike rides. Kind of close to home, but still a good place to relax for a few minutes. But maybe not right now.

Vinterbänk

Winter is here to stay. Snow everywhere during my walk today. This is a bench in the park in Tungelsta. As I took the photo, I was reminded about of the time when I sat down on this actual bench during the rock festival held here every Summer. There was a guy sitting next to me. He was enjoying the music, and we started to talk. After a few minutes of chit-chat he gave me a funny look, like he knew who I was, and that's when I realized that I had known him since we were teenagers. We were also classmates in secondary school. Sorry about that, Per, but people can change quite a lot if you don't see them that often.

Winter&Autumn

We got the first snow of the season on Thursday. Social media exploded in snow shots. I took one photo, because that is the rule. It stopped snowing after ten minutes. It was gone within the hour. Stockholm saw some snow in the early evening. Then yesterday it snowed at my place for maybe five minutes. And then it rained and rained and rained. But up North they got the real deal, and traffic chaos followed as is the rule. Expecting a chilly Saturday with maybe 6C.

Snow Pattern

I took a short promenade after a recent snowfall. No real inspiration. This caught my eye as I walked through the local park in Tungelsta. It is part of a beehive. Placed there a few years ago by Bee Urban.

Koltrast

This Common blackbird was sitting outside my veranda yesterday. It is tough times for the birds when it is as cold and snowy as it is now. -10C as I am typing this. I am all out of bird seeds so I guess I need to fix that.

Winter!

It snowed yesterday. Predictable, because it happens a few times every year. If you drive a car, you need to have your Winter tires on. So obviously there was chaos everywhere, with long queues outside the places where you could have your tires changed. Police swung by a filling station near me where people were disagreeing on how queues really work. More problems in Stockholm where they decided that the streets were unsafe and stopped all the public transport buses! No such problems for me, though, so I went for a Winter promenade. And as I walked over a bridge I could hear the snow plow tractor behind me, and I first thought that he was driving on the street, but obviously he was clearing the walkway, so I had to jump out of the way for him a couple of times. More snow now as I am typing this, so chances are that it will stay for a few days.

Different Ways

The walkway to the right is kept free from snow and ice during the Winter. So you can easily run and cycle there. The one to the left, not so much. I took this photo which, is actually four photos stitched together, on my way home from the Rudan nature reserve earlier today. If you have a photographic memore of sorts you might remember that I snapped a very similar photo at this exact spot back in January.

Snow Cannons

Hidden here are the two snow cannons at the Rudan nature reserve, used to produce most of the snow that you could see in yesterday's post. I took this photo 48 hours ago, and now, just two days later, pretty much all the snow we got with the cold weather last week is already gone. There might be some artificially made snow left here at the reserve, though. Today was a very gray day. With a temperature hovering around 2C. There was a Christmas market here in Tungelsta but I couldn't be bothered to go out.

A Winter Scene

A Winter photo.I shot this yesterday, during my visit to Rudan. Sure has Winter feel to it.

Mood of the Day

Indoor weather, sort of.

The Future

This is a photo of the near future. The King's Garden Hotel in Stockholm. I took this photo a few days ago. We don't have any snow here, yet. I'm guessing this is leftover snow from the ice skating rink that opened for the season here two weeks ago. But, and here is the future for you, we are expecting snow as early as later today. It has been snowing like mad all over Sweden this week, so someone decided that Stockholm should also get some of that white stuff. Theme Day at CDP. The Future.

Snow Tree

This can happen if there's a tree close to the snow cannon. As spotted at the Rudan nature reserve a couple of days ago. They use artificial snow here for the ski tracks. Now, a few days later it is 5C and raining, so maybe not so good for the skiers.

The Bike Rack

An over-snowed and unused bike rack at the commuter station in Tungelsta. In the background a building that today houses a pizzeria, an art store/gallery and a tattoo parlor. When I was a kid back in the 1970s it was a popular cafe where I often hanged with my friends, spending my allowance on the pinball machines while drinking soft drinks. It was also the local post office until all the post offices in Sweden were closed, and also the headquarters for the local political party Socialdemokraterna. Back then the building was painted gray. Today it has a new owner, the construction company Turbinen that are busy building row-houses and a new school on the other side of the railway station.

Snöorm

Made-up Swedish Winter word of the day. Snöorm. Snow snake.