Nice tour as always. Those black tubes protruding from the ground look like a drip irrigation system. Excellent but they don't last long, they always break -- very high maintenance. I put them all over the landscape in my area but wound up ripping them all out of the ground years later since they had long before stopped working.

The thing I often remember about the Spring Thaw in the North is the smell of the Earth. It's like there is no smell all winter and then that softening and dampening and living odor of ... what? It's the mud, the Earth, the soil and a child experiences it with freshness.

Nothing uglier than an old pile of snow but it will leave it's pile of sand or dust when it finally fades away -- and that will blow in your face as you walk by!

I think it was last year they had ice left in Lake Michigan until May or June and in Lake Superior until July! So are we warming or cooling as a planet? {CAUTION - One Man's Opinion Ahead}
AGW: It's probably not anthropogenic (man made) Global Warming rather it's the Sun that controls our climate. And notice how it's the big polluters that are controlling the Climate Change agenda (all the oil companies contribute heavily for example).

I grew up at the 42nd parallel and am now basking (if not swealtering) at the 25th degree latitude. I see Oslo is at 57+ and Tromso is indeed above the Arctic Circle at almost 70 degrees.

So you SAIL in those DEEP FJORDS and meet up "with small whales?" Well, that explains why you've become a whale on Steemit!