Snowrich Year End/Year Start in Finland!

Christmas Eve 2021.

I really like Snow in Winter, let that be said. 

And it has been an early, snow-rich, long winter thus far, and we are only in the first half of January!

More snow that I can ever remember in one day, 44 cm new snow, on Christmas Eve, and some more snow and chill thereafter too. 

That's a really Snow-White Christmas.

Beautiful, very beautiful, but, let's face it, also way too much snow. 

It was chaos in traffic on Christmas Eve and Day. 

But the winter landscape was beautifully white and the air fresh (and cold).

Ironically I write this tonight, Jan. 13. When it is still +2 degrees outside. 

Today a lot of all that snow started melting away, and that made pavements and roads very slippery. 

So now we long for more snow again, a little more, not too much, though.

Snowy pavements and roads always beat icy ones. 

They are safer and so much nicer to walk on. 

Not to mention that new snow is both beautiful and clean.

This is what we say and convince us of, while waiting for sunnier days and the late spring.

And more cold and snow is expected. The coldest month, February, is still ahead.

Above two pics from early January, and below a pic on Christmas Eve, after a sudden snowfall of 44 cm new snow, on top of about 15 cm old snow...

However, there have been some sunny days too, and then it is very nice (and/or exotic) to walk by the frozen sea, with beautiful frozen views, at (the beautiful but way too early) sunset...