weekly photo challenge: rule of third

if any one missed it, i can reveal it’s now 2015…

it’s cold cold cold world

but beautiful, and you get real warm gear to sleep in – at the ice hotel in jukkasjärvi. way north of the arctic circle, positively a cold, cold world this time of year.

behind the sun

just follow the road.

weekly photo challenge: serenity

the jetties are drawn away, the sea temperature is way below bathing – one solitary mallard enjoys the serenity of the beach in the frail winter sun.

weekly photo challenge: warmth

the title could also have been parallel lines.

we have finally (?) real winter in stockholm with freezing temperature, beautiful sunny days and a fantastic warm light. very photographic, the light. just so few hours every day…

the return of the thin white duke

so we all thought jack frost had retreated for this season, had abandoned ship, gone hiding. but just as you can never know if he’s at the north or south pole, you can never trust him really gone hiding either. so he sent his icy messenger, the return of the thin white duke, to underline who is in command still. he knows his mastery to perfection, and so does the thin white duke.

tits

two blue tits working their way through the peanuts while a great tit waits for his turn. winter can be hard for the smaller birds so we keep our feeders filled, and get to see quite a few birds in our garden. admittedly though, this winter has so far not been much of a winter, and sometimes i wonder if they are just lazy coming here… but they’re cute, and it’s kind a nice having a bunch of tits close. and goldfinch, and bullfinch.

theme: direction

this week’s “fotosöndag” theme is direction, and even if not fully straight on target this bird knew exactly where it was going. the trail looks a bit like miniature dinosaur’s, but i guess that’s more the impact of “ice age” than anything else…

frozen

crystal

winter, for real. finally. yes finally, better for real than some kind of grey just above freezing meaninglessness. the snow we have finally gotten actually makes winter less dark. so even i, a notorious summer creature, prefers real winters, if winter is necessary at all…