Winter in Lapland, Beautiful Photos

[SeaBreeze]

Great place to spend Christmas! More (you can click on See 10 More) photos here.

 

[Carla]

Beautiful! What kind of animal is the antlered fellow?

 

[SeaBreeze]

Reindeer I assume Carla.

 

[RadishRose]

Oh my! Seriously beautiful, SeaBreeze, thanks.

 

[Buckeye]

The pictures are lovely. Thanks for sharing. But that is as close as I care to get to Lapland.

 

[Shalimar]

Beautiful! Didn't realise there were white reindeer, and I love the small house with the tiered roof affect.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Hoot n Annie, it isn't always cold in Lapland! I worked in N.Finland for a while and when my wife came to visit, we took the 'Santa Claus Express' train up to Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle in Lapland. It was May/June time and at Santa's official summer home, it was 32C. (that's 90F !!). Santa was in his air conditioned office - Dianne and I were in T-shirt and shorts!
Yes, there is a Santa - we've got the picture to prove it! He wears a gray suit in summer.

 

[SeaBreeze]

:christmas1:

 

[Lara]

I had no idea Reindeer did much more than just walk slowly until I watched your video at the 2:15 mark. They race like horses! That must be a dangerous sport to be skiing behind them at their mercy. Beautiful scenery!

 

[IKE]

Pretty pics but I wouldn't want to live there because of the winters.....as a pup I did some growing up in northern Wisconsin and I had all the snow back then than I ever want.

Here we may (or may not) get one or two snows a year but they are under 2" and usually melted away after a couple of days.

 

[BlueDragonfly]

Gorgeous!

 

[Gary O']

.... and I love the small house with the tiered roof affect.

It's called adding on
Small cabins get smaller...fast

 

[Gary O']

Great pics

They sure know their log construction over there

My stocking cap off to that

 

[jujube]

Those pictures would make great Christmas cards!

 

[MeAgain]

Oh my! Seriously beautiful, SeaBreeze, thanks.

Isn't it though, almost unreal beauty. Closest I ever came was in Tenn. Everything was covered in snow and ice. Like a white crystal wonderland.

 

[Falcon]

Brrrrrrr! But pretty. Thanks for the pics.

 

[hearlady]

That is so beautiful! I'd love to see it in person.

 

[SeaBreeze]

Baby White Reindeer in Oslo, Norway

I thought these pics were cute, more here.

Like something out of a whimsical Christmas tale, an extremely rare white baby reindeer was recently spotted in Oslo, Norway by photographer Mads Nordsveen and the photos are enchanting.