What a Winter Should Be

This is the Sweden that I really love. When winter shows up and stays. It has snowed a little, enough to cover the surface of everything (about 2 inches) and it has stayed cold for a while so it all stays. We have had about a week with tempuratures in the 20F or around 0F at night. Which means that all the lakes freeze enough to be on them. Of course we always go out with intrepidation and take some precautions, and have yet to take Sam on the ice. This weekend Samuel spent the weekend with his grandparents at their ocean home (otherwise known as Grebbestad) and Andreas had the weekend off so we headed to the house in the woods (otherwise known as Otto's). We went to our favorite lake, Tinnsjon, and it was frozen solid! So we took several walks all over the lake. It is a wonderful feeling to walk on the lake that you swim in through the summer. A bit surreal also. The sound that a frozen lake makes is a bit eary, so most of the time we stuck to the edges. However, others had drilled towards the middle of the lake to make sure that it was thick enough. We saw lake skaters, lots of animal tracks (including a huge Elk track, Kelty was interested in that one), even dirt bike tracks! It was absolutely amazing. I took the pictures below for all to enjoy just a little piece of what we did. So enjoy and if you would like to come enjoy it with us you are all welcome.

Blessings,
Laurie

Andreas enjoying the sun, the boat oar was a precaution just in case someone fell it. I love his shadow it makes him look very long.



This was a fun ice sculpture in the little creek.