Nature Pics

For the appreciation of the glorious beauty of nature and in unexpected places.
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Snow is pretty. Melting snow turns my fields into muck and my cows sink to their hocks walking through some places. I have to wear knee high rubber boots and our tractor is much more likely to get stuck.

We try to feed the cows when the ground is still frozen in the morning, but that's not always possible. And the cows say that walking on frozen muck filled with hoof holes is pretty hazardous all on its own.

Additionally, the ground freezing at night means that the moisture isn't draining away. It just stays there until the afternoon thaw and doesn't have time to go away and then it freezes again.

This frozen muck phase has been going on since the beginning of the year. Every time I think it's going to finally dry up and solidify.... it snows again. :( We are going to get another 3 inches or so this afternoon.
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You have talking cows?? Cool!!

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Body language! :P They walk like their feet hurt- sort of careful and worried they are going to get hurt again.
My husband thought they were limping this morning, but it's just a sort of jerky, halting gait. I stubbed my foot on a frozen muck lump and almost fell myself.
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Poor cows!

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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A frozen lake near my home.
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Very cool, Jonas.

And very cold, looks like.
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Frelga wrote:Very cool, Jonas.

And very cold, looks like.
I don't think it was so cold maybe? 10 minus celsius. (The picture is taken for one and a half months ago so I do not know exactly the tempeature).
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That's very beautiful.

I'd like to know more about the area, if you have time...
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JonasHS wrote:I don't think it was so cold maybe? 10 minus celsius.

Ah, so you live in one of the circles of hell, than?

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yovargas wrote:
JonasHS wrote:I don't think it was so cold maybe? 10 minus celsius.

Ah, so you live in one of the circles of hell, than?

(Greetings from Florida. :wooper: )
Pfft, where did you get the idea that hell was cold? :devil:
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Maybe yov is already in Hell and doesn't know it? :wooper:
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Jude wrote:
yovargas wrote:
JonasHS wrote:I don't think it was so cold maybe? 10 minus celsius.

Ah, so you live in one of the circles of hell, than?

(Greetings from Florida. :wooper: )
I live in Orsa Municipality Sweden and the photo is of Lake Orsa taken from Orsa camping. And if you want to see more photos that is available on Wikipedia.
Yovargas if you think that is cold then you should see that it was -25°C on Christmas eve in the evening. :)
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SVERIGE! EXCELLENT! :love:
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"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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Ha-ha, were you lately wishing, very strongly, for a swedish-speaking friend to talk with, elengil. :)
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Very lovely! :)
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elengil wrote:SVERIGE! EXCELLENT! :love:
Happy to be able to spread some joy. :hug:
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Does Orsa have anything to do with bears or not in Swedish?
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JonasHS wrote:
elengil wrote:SVERIGE! EXCELLENT! :love:
Happy to be able to spread some joy. :hug:
Jag försöker att lära mig Svenska for... tre år? Jag är inte så bra på det.

I was watching a youtube video of kids who have been in Sweden for 5 months and I wan't able to follow their conversation with their teacher. So clearly I am not really picking it up well. But I'm still trying! (And trying to get better to use the actual vowels å ä ö and not be lazy and just use a and o because that's what I have on my keyboard.)
The dumbest thing I've ever bought
was a 2020 planner.

"Does anyone ever think about Denethor, the guy driven to madness by staying up late into the night alone in the dark staring at a flickering device he believed revealed unvarnished truth about the outside word, but which in fact showed mostly manipulated media created by a hostile power committed to portraying nothing but bad news framed in the worst possible way in order to sap hope, courage, and the will to go on? Seems like he's someone we should think about." - Dave_LF
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