Easter is the time when it turns, when darkness turns to light, and some call it the fifth season. When the light returns and everyone longs for a little vitamin D, it gets busy. Now there's fishing, snowmobiling, and skiing, and every single mountain cabin is suddenly inhabited. The population in the mountain valleys multiplies during this time.
It can be a completely wonderful time in a sun pit (a pit you shovel in the snowdrifts so that you are sheltered from the wind and can sit in the sun), but it can also be a full-blown snowstorm.
This is how nice we had it on Easter Eve 2023 at Malgomaj
This is what it looked like yesterday on Good Friday's trip.
When I was a child, Easter was always celebrated, without exception, in a cabin on an islet in a mountain lake. We had about ten kilometers to the nearest road, no electricity, and no running water, but they were the best Easter holidays you can imagine. Sometimes Girifjället sparkled white like a sugarloaf, and sometimes you couldn't even see the top. So, we certainly know, it can be sun, and it can be a snowstorm, the only thing you can be completely sure of is that it doesn't look like the illustrations on the Easter egg, green grass and blooming daffodils ;)
As I write, packed lunches are being prepared for the village's communal Easter trip!
Keep your fingers crossed that we get to see the sun this year, and at the same time, I want to wish you a Happy Easter.
As I write, packed lunches are being prepared for the village's communal Easter trip!
Keep your fingers crossed that we get to see the sun this year, and at the same time, I want to wish you a Happy Easter.