Withered and frosen hop (Humulus lupulus)
The road to my house. Yes, that's solid ice in the ruts. My car has spiked winter tyres, but I still have to use snowchains when the road is like that.
Came home from work and found this beautiful, snow-covered weed next to the road. Just had to jump out of the car and snap a shot.
The yard and my car. That's a birchtree, btw. Love it.
A barb wire fence next to the road down to the farm. I often stop to take pictures on my way home from work.
Another pic from the road to the farm. That's not normal fog, that's all the humidity in the air freezing. A common phenomenon in this region.
You forget the freezing temperature when you see something like this.
More hops. So plain and unassuming when seen from a distance, but beautiful up close.
A fresh coat of snow. The milder weather makes the frost thaw and then refreeze on the ground and vegetation.
Can a silverbirch possibly look more beautiful?
Ice weighing down the weeds along the road.
-27 degrees Celsius / -16.6 degrees Fahrenheit
The field south of the house, sloping down towards the tree-lined Leira river.
Frost-covered fence and eerie light because of the frozen air.
Silverbirch and old fence.
This weird frost is the result of the frozen air, with the frost crystals sticking to anything and everything.
Frozen trees longing for warmer weather.
I just love the blue light just before the sun sets.
You can see which way the wind came from...
Bright sunshine that day, but the frozen air makes it look cloudy.
Branches and twigs covered with ice.
More of the eerie light caused by sunshine through frozen air.
Frozen weeds.
I just love this light, but it's really too cold to go out and take pictures.
The frost crystals build up in layers and make the weeds look fuzzy.
Looks almost like a snow lantern, but it's just the sun shining through.
Barb wire fence. I don't like barb wire because a moose or roedeer can get seriously hurt trying to get through. But add some frost and even barb wire looks beautiful.
Ice-crusted snow on the fence. Had to use a spade to cut it into segments and break them off. Very cold task.
My neighbour mr. Lauritz Fladby's undulating field. You won't find perfectly flat fields in these parts.
Close-up of some weeds next to the house. Had to sit down in the snow to take the picture. In -27C/-16F temperature.
Early spring a couple of years ago.
I wish I had a good camera with a macro objective. But a SonyEricsson K810i cellphone can still take surprisingly good pix.
The layer of ice crystals was about an inch thick (2,5 cm). Branches broke off trees everywhere.
Sunset outside my house.
Sunset through some young trees.
Dead old trees next to the house. Birds like to store seeds in the cracked bark.
Relatively mild days and cold nights for a few days creates wonderful sculptures everywhere.
Wish I'd had a little more light for this. A few minutes earlier the sun shone straight through these snow formations.
More than one inch of frost on thin branches, making them look much thicker than they really are. The weight breaks thick brances while the thinner ones just bend down and endure.
Should've had more light here, but the ice fog shut out the sun. Look at the hill in the background to the right. Bright midday sunshine. But the ice fog gathers thick down here.
The trees with thin branches survive the winter, while thick-branched trees break under the weight of the frost and snow.
Landscape in blue evening light.
Frost sculpture. Beautiful.
Frost and wind makes fascinationg ice formations.
Detail of frost-covered branch.
This is where I live. A run-down rented smallholding in Nannestad, Norway. Indoor temperature today when I woke up: 10C / 50F. Outdoor temp: -33C/-27.5F. All the pipes froze overnight.
On days like this I *really* wish I had a good camera and a macro objective. Still, lean closer and look at the details. Beautiful.
Mr Fladby's field and the most beautiful blue sky imaginable. In the horizon in the middle of the picture there's a little "spike" sticking up. That's the control tower at the Gardermoen Int'l Airport.
Wheat stubs in low evening sun.
Frost building up into strange knob-like formations on the ground.
Frost knobs and low evening sun. Perfect combination.
More frost knobs. There's nothing inside them except ice, and the snow's surface started out smooth. Any irregularity then got covered with frost crystals, which just kept on assembling.
The hill northwest of the house. It shields the house from most of the noise from the airport 5 kilometres to the west.
Frozen clothespin.
Silverbirch at sunset.
The top of the hill next to the house. The closest neighbour lives behind those trees, 200 metres away. I can play my music as loud as I like. Great change from living in Oslo.
Stinging nettle getting itself "stung" by the cold. Haha! See how much you like that, you fiend!
Low winter sun
Three old tree stubs looking like old men wearing funny hats
Stuck in the snow. Putting on snow chains is brrrrr, ccccold!
Almost like sand dunes in a frozen desert
