Totallyme (still very busy with workload...)
Looking for cranberries just before the New Year
Even if Latvia is quite small, roughly 65 000 km², there are many nature parks, old forests, lake areas, and areas that are called in English swamps, bogs, marshes - I don' t know which one is the most correct word in this case, - but we have lots of those areas where in autumns cranes stop on their way to the south, where one can pick up some cloudberries and cranberries in the right time and right places, and where we have some of our beautiful board walk routes.
They are different in different seasons, more beautiful they are in summer and in deep winter, but this time I went there just after Christmas. Cranes were long time gone (of course), frost still had not appeared, but I found some handfuls of partly frozen cranberries that tasted still quite deliciously.
This is one of the little bog lakes the path lead us by.
Looking for cranberries just before the New Year
Even if Latvia is quite small, roughly 65 000 km², there are many nature parks, old forests, lake areas, and areas that are called in English swamps, bogs, marshes - I don' t know which one is the most correct word in this case, - but we have lots of those areas where in autumns cranes stop on their way to the south, where one can pick up some cloudberries and cranberries in the right time and right places, and where we have some of our beautiful board walk routes.
They are different in different seasons, more beautiful they are in summer and in deep winter, but this time I went there just after Christmas. Cranes were long time gone (of course), frost still had not appeared, but I found some handfuls of partly frozen cranberries that tasted still quite deliciously.
This is one of the little bog lakes the path lead us by.