Foxy's
winter adventures
 Part 58

Walking at Gammlia open air museum
and in the Gammlia woods.
December 2014

Me in my red Arctic Fjällräven jacket walking in the Gammlia woods. It was -21 degrees  Celsius (5.8 Fahrenheit) but I did not need to freeze. I kept warm in my cosy jacket.
2014-12-20.
This day I was walking in the soft blue winter light.

2014-12-20. Somebody had made a squirrel of snow on the tree. This looked real funny :-)
2014-12-20. The Gammlia woods were magical after it snowed.
2014-12-20. It was so peaceful and so gorgeous.
2014-12-20. The reindeer pasture.
2014-12-20. Winter wonderland.
2014-12-20. The North Sami house
2014-12-20. Snow art.
2014-12-20. I had to bend me because there was a lot of snow on the trees.
2014-12-20. I saw a lot of birds in the trees.
2014-12-20. There were many birds gathering. I firs thought they were waxwings. But they did not sound like them.
2014-12-20. It were fieldfare  (Turdus pilaris) It seemed they should move because there were many of them.
2014-12-20. There was a great tit in the bird feeder at Gammlia
2014-12-20. The low sunlight made the snow on the trees pink.
2014-12-20. Snow on the fence by the pond.
2014-12-20. The pond is frozen.
2014-12-20.
2014-12-20. Helena Elisabeth kyrkan (church) in the blue hour.
2014-12-20. The Christmas tree at Gammlia.
2014-12-20. Here the rooster and hens used to go in summer.
2014-12-20. Icicles.
2014-12-20. There were icicle on the whole barn.
2014-12-20.
2014-12-20. In summer there were goats in this pasture.
2014-12-20. The goat pasture and the barn in the distance.
2014-12-20. There were many rowanberries this year.
2014-12-20. Good with the berries for the birds.
2014-12-20. The birches were beautiful in the snow.
2014-12-20.
2014-12-20. The large drying rack .
2014-12-20. Christmas decorations.
2014-12-20. The Gammlia woods
2014-12-20. The light was shining through the trees.
2014-12-24.
This day I had to go out early, because I should celebrate Christmas with my family. Then I was walking in "The Blue Hour".
2014-12-24. It was so silent. Nobody was out.
2014-12-24. A little Christmas tree :-)
2014-12-24. Gammlia in the blue hour
2014-12-24.
2014-12-24. Magical!
2014-12-24. This bench was not taken in for the winter.  Now it had a cushion of snow.
2014-12-24. I did not sit down on the bank. I enjoyed the trees that were covered of snow.
2014-12-24. I had to walk in deep snow, it was snowing again the night before.
2014-12-24. The fieldfares were gone. They had moved. Now there were a lot off waxwings in the trees.
2014-12-24. Waxwing
2014-12-25.
This day I had more time to be out and was there at lunch time. I was walking in the low sunlight.
2014-12-25.
2014-12-25. The sun did not reach the ground but I could see the sunlight in the treetops.
2014-12-25. Walking in a winter wonderland.
2014-12-25. The barn with hoar frost on the walls
2014-12-25. I remember there were horses in this pasture in summer.
2014-12-25. Beautiful with the sunlight
2014-12-25. The Christmas tree at Gammlia
2014-12-25. Hoar frost and icicles on the barn.
2014-12-25. This was so peaceful.
2014-12-25.
2014-12-25. The horse was pulling me in this carriage at the Christmas market.
2014-12-25. Christmas decoration, now also decorated with snow.
2014-12-25. The rock. Covered with snow.
2014-12-25. The North Sami House.

2014-12-26.
I only was out a little while, we should have guests for lunch. But I could enjoy the woods a short time.
2014-12-26. Also today the woods were magical.
2014-12-26. The snow made that the trees bent over the trail.
2014-12-26.
2014-12-26. The pink light through the trees.
2014-12-26. Much snow in the tree.
2014-12-28.
This day I also was there at lunch time. The orange light of the sun was beautiful.
2014-12-28. I see the light!
2014-12-28. I visited Västerbottens museum. A beautiful decoration. Somebody who works at Gammlia made it. You can see the church through the window.
2014-12-28. The school house.
2014-12-28. The dance pavilion and the beautiful sunlight.
2014-12-28. The light will shine in the darkness.
2014-12-28. Snow on the fence.
2014-12-28. Blue snow in the shadow and orange snow in the sunlight.
2014-12-29.
In the morning I had to walk to the grocery shop. At lunch I heard on the radio the there should be rain the next day. Then I hurried out to see the woods one more time. It was already getting dark. I had a walk in "the blue hour". I looked at the hoar frost and enjoyed the silence.
2014-12-29. Three Waycross.
2014-12-29. Hoar frost on the trees.
2014-12-29. There was a soft light in the woods.
2014-12-29.
2014-12-29. Hoar frost by Västerbottens Museum.
2014-12-29. Helena Elisabeth kyrkan. (church)
2014-12-29. There was also hoar frost on the houses at Gammlia.
2014-12-29. Nobody was here. It was so peaceful, it made me calm and gave me strength.
2014-12-29. When I look at this picture I can "hear" the silence.
2014-12-29.
2014-12-29. Christmas tree and advent candles inside the house.
2014-12-29. The stage. Snowed over.
2014-12-29. Old farmer house.
2014-12-29. It looks cosy with the candles in the windows.
2014-12-29. In summer there were sheep in this pasture.
2014-12-29.
2014-12-29. The winter light in the sky is often beautiful.
In the years that have passed I had many nice adventures in the Gammlia woods and Gammlia. This  picture of me is taken in the Gammlia woods 2012. It was snowing and cold. But I kept warm. :)
Wilhelmina Schedin. 2016-03-04