A Winter Walk with Liam

Today, Liam and I took a walk around Oxsjön, our local lake, which offered an opportunity to try out the new digital camera. Here is a selection of the results!

We have had a little snow, and this morning the temperatures was down to -6, so the scenery is getting wintry. Oxsjön was indeed frozen , although I certainly wouldn't trust my weight to that ice! We passed our usual grill place , although today we had no sausages with us.

I love the winter scenery. Here, for example, the reeds seem to be growing out of the ice itself . One of the fascinating things about snow is that one suddenly sees animal tracks all around. I wonder what beast crossed the lake at this point, for example?

Liam is fascinated by all the details around him: his stock phrase is `Come here, I want to show you something´! Here we see

Towards the end of our walk Liam found some unusual tracks -- most are dogs, of course, since so many people walk theirs up at the lake. But these were different. My guess is a deer, and not a roe deer because they are so small: these tracks were maybe 3-4" long and over a foot apart. Perhaps a hart, if that is what they are called in English. The deer had followed the path for 1-200 metres: Liam was amazed that animals follow paths that people have made!

Maybe this had something to do with it: . We almost never see vehicles at Oxsjön; usually the road is closed. But today, we saw several. Hunting season, perhaps?

If you click on the next thumbnail, you will see a panorama taken near the end of our walk, almost 360 degrees.

Liam says this is his best winter ever!

All the thumbnails