Travel contest XXIII edition - The beauty of the Russian north

Hello, my friends on Steem

This is my answer to the task of the Travel contest XXIII edition (30 STEEM) by Steem-Traveler.

This week's theme is Natural Beauty!.

10% of the publication rewards from this post go to the development of the Steem-Traveler.


I haven't written anything in this travel topic for 29 days. There were reasons for that. I'm in a depressed mood and I can't think about traveling. Yes, my children and I had a lot of plans for the summer this year. We wanted to make a trip to the mountains and to a European country. But now this plan cannot be implemented. On February 24, all plans collapsed.


Today I looked at Steemit and decided to show my friends a little autumn nature. These are photos from my trip to the Arkhangelsk region on October 1 last year.
I made this trip in my car. I had a partner - the father of my son's wife and we went to visit them. In 2 days we drove a distance of 2,600 kilometers. We didn't have much time and we were visiting our children for only 6 hours. We had dinner for 2 hours and slept for 4 hours.

On the way, we made several stops so that I could take pictures of our natural beauty. So, friends, if someone says that there is no beauty in my photos, then I will be offended and will no longer show you my photos!
I was joking.
In the Vologda and Arkhangelsk regions, we crossed many small rivers. In those places, many of them have some fancy names that are difficult to remember. These names go back to the time when the first Russian settlers settled on this land and learned the names of rivers from the local population.

When we were driving towards the North, I saw this wonderful horticultural association and decided that on the way back I just had to stop and take some photos to show this landscape to my children and my friends.
It's time for the show! Namely, that on the way back I did not forget to make a stop and pick up a camera and take a few photos.



It is rare to see such bright colors in our region. Only in a dry, not rainy autumn. And colorful little houses in the gardens.

This road was made by loggers, loggers. If you do not make such a wooden flooring, then cars loaded with logs simply will not be able to leave or forests.
And there is also an important point. They are intelligent and cultured people! If you do not use such a flooring and cars can leave the forest on the road, then they will pollute the entire asphalt with their wheels and create an emergency situation on the highway! Due to the omok, cars clean their wheels.
Sometimes you can even find paved exits from the forest. But this can be observed very rarely. It costs a lot of money.



And this is one of the autumn sunrises that I can watch from my bedroom window!
It was a frosty morning in mid-November 2018.


I want to invite my new friend from England @petface to participate in the contest. I know she must have interesting photos of English landscapes.
Or maybe I can see the landscapes of Scotland? @stef1, will you show them to me?
And of course I have to see the natural beauty from @papi.mati

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Thanks for attention.

I wish you all good luck!

And I will be glad to have your attention to my posts again.

@apnigrich