Foxy's
winter adventures
 Part 91

 

The Sami week
Gammlia and the woods. 2017

Me standing by a copy of the world's oldest skies. It was snowing and very cold. I needed my red Arctic jacket.
2017-03-08. There was Sami week in the woods. They decorated  by the Sami houses with ice  lanterns and fir twigs.
2017-03-08. They had lit a fire and reindeer skin on the benches.
2017-03-08. Colourful ribbons.
2017-03-08. A little Sami house.
2017-03-08. Dried autumn leaves inside ice
2017-03-08. These are dried rowan leaves.
2017-03-08. A Sami house and a storing  house.
2017-03-08. More decorations
2017-03-08. The North Sami house.
2017-03-08. Smoke was coming from the chimney
2017-03-08. They had lit the stove because. You could go in here and be warm.
2017-03-08. The stove.
2017-03-08. Ice lantern.
2017-03-08.  Ice lantern.
2017-03-08. The north Sami house. This week the house was open.

Former years they also had reindeer. But the last years they did not take reindeer to the Gammlia woods.

I show some old pictures. This was in the year 2013-03-06. Me with the kick sledge and reindeer.
2013-03-07. Me petting a reindeer.
2014-02-01. A little sweet white reindeer.
2012-03-05. Me feeding a reindeer.
Back to 2017. Gammlia 2017-03-08.
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2017-03-08. It was snowing and rather dark outside.
2017-03-08. The colourful decorations were cheering up.
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2017-03-08. A guy who works at Gammlia was showing how to ski on the old skies.
2017-03-08. It still was snowing.
They had most Sami events inside the museum. I bought this Sami craft bookmark of a Sami. I took a picture of it and then sent it to a friend.
2017-03-09. The dark weather made the pictures looking monochrome.
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2017-03-09. Gammlia.
2017-03-09. Gammlia.
2017-03-09. Colourful decorations by the bakery house.
2017-03-09. People had build two snowmen.
2017-03-09. Gammlia in the dark weather.
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2017-03-09. It was still snowing.
2017-03-09. The magical woods in monochrome.
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2017-03-09. Much snow on the roof and an icicle.
2017-03-09. Snow on the logs.
2017-03-09. The dance pavilion.
2017-03-09. I had tea and a sandwich in the Sami Café.
2017-03-09. I had Sami bread named gahkku with smoked reindeer meat. And blueberry vanilla tea..
2017-03-09. The outside of the Sami café.
2017-03-09. The Sami flag.
I bought the Sami bread named gahkku in the bakery at Gammlia.
2017-03-09. I bought this CD with the Sami Jon Henrik Fjällgren
2017-03-09. Later Ove an I had a sandwich with smoked meat and Sami bread named gahkku bread.
                                                     Wilhelmina Schedin 2017-03-28