Reposted: Icicles and cute critters - Kuvia viiden vuoden takaa

Hei taas ja mukavaa tiistai-iltaa! En ole ehtinyt valmistella uutta postausta, mutta halusin kuitenkin tervehtiä teitä, joten julkaisen kuvia viiden vuoden takaa. Tammikuussa 2015 oli lunta ja pakkasta ja hassunnäköisiä jääpuikkoja. :)

Hello all! January 2020 doesn't look quite like could be expected. Usually we have much more snow, like for example five years ago... All the photos and texts of this post have been originally published in January 2015.

There is beauty everywhere around us.

In the last few days, we have seen some unusual icicles. It had been snowing much and on all roofs there were thick, heavy blankets of snow. With thawing, the snow started slowly to slide downwards (and fell down).  In this photo, you can see some of the last chunks still on a roof:

The melt water running under the blanket of snow had formed funny-looking icicles:

This is one of them, seen through our kitchen window:

In the following day, it was sparkling golden in the rays of the afternoon sun:

Looking like abstract art:

Here another one, again seen from the kitchen window:

Below, you can see air bubbles and some seeds trapped in the ice. The colours haven't been edited. The sun was shining and the dark background colour of this and the first photo comes from the trees behind (on the other side of the lake):

♥

And then the critter update (of January 2015!).  One of "our" squirrels has learned to climb a steel pole to reach the bird feeder you can see in this post. I went to tell him/her that even though inventive, this approach is not appreciated by us. He/she decided to back away for a while:

A very cute willow tit came to keep an eye on the situation... and on the feeder:

Thank you for your visit!

xoxo