{"id":21893,"date":"2026-02-22T23:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21893"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:24:33","slug":"daily_4008_-_the_last_winter_weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/daily_4008_-_the_last_winter_weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4008 &#8211; the last winter weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A smattering of fresh snow and brilliant sunshine &#8211; and forecasts of sustained above-zero temperatures. This might just be the last beautiful weekend of winter for this season.<\/p>\n<p>I went for a walk around lake S\u00e4bysj\u00f6n on J\u00e4rvaf\u00e4ltet. First around the lake, then on the lake itself. There was a ploughed skating track on the ice, which was also great for walking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4008_walk_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4008_walk_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4008_walk_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere around the northern tip of the lake got tired of the endless views of the lake and not much else and headed back for the woods. Then got tired of the wide tracks and followed a deer track through the woods, until that petered out into nothing and I just headed roughly in the right direction based on where the sun was and where I thought I saw the open space of the lake to be.<\/p>\n<p>I should have aimed for a longer circuit from the start. I got back to my starting point after only two hours of walking, and I wouldn&#8217;t have minded doing twice that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4008_walk_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4008_walk_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smattering of fresh snow and brilliant sunshine &#8211; and forecasts of sustained above-zero temperatures. This might just be the last beautiful weekend of winter for this season. I went for a walk around lake S\u00e4bysj\u00f6n on J\u00e4rvaf\u00e4ltet. First around the lake, then on the lake itself. There was a ploughed skating track on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,773,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-outdoors","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21896,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21893\/revisions\/21896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}