Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest

Tremanskärr

Pine

Reflect

Fallen

Path

Here are five photographs taken on Saturday at Tremanskärr, while I was (slowly and carefully) walking across the swamp. The flood level is going down because it hasn't rained for a while, but rain has been forecasted for this week, so this can change.

Snow levels will be dropping surely even further. It may be that there is hardly any snow left in forests a week from now. I have been planning a longer walk in the forests, 4-5 hours, and the amount of snow and flood is quite a deciding factor when thinking about the best route. Exploring swamps might be interesting but only of there isn't excessive amount of flooding.

(Posting title is from the poem The Dream by John Donne.)

The light enters through one window like a novel

Hillside

Puddle

Forest

Flooded

Footsteps

I did some shopping with the children on Saturday, and it was already somewhat late when I went for a walk at the Tremanskärr swamp. There is still some snow in the forest, especially on places which face north, away for the sun.

The Tremanskärr swamp was flooded, and there was 20-30 cm of water under the snow. One had to walk very carefully, testing each step. The tall rubber boots were perfect for exploring the swamp. I didn't see any previous tracks showing that someone would have walked there since the flood started.

(Posting title is from the poem A Way of Being by Barbara Guest.)

And for a hundred visions and revisions

Ditch

Snow

Playground

Leaves

These photographs are also from Thursday, when I went for a walk with my youngest daughter. Or rather she rode a bicycle and I walked. We saw a lot of signs of spring, and even though not all of them are pretty, it feels good that it is a time of changes in nature.

This morning depth of snow reported at Helsinki-Vantaa airport was 7 cm, now it is 0 cm. Spring is here.

(Posting title is from the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.)