Red Barn in a B&W world

If you don't have a painted building in your view the world looks very monochrome in winter, especially on a snowy day.
Our delightfully cold temperatures have given way to much warmer +1°C weather. Fortunately the precipitation continues to fall as snow rather than rain, and the ground is cold enough that the snow isn't melting.
However, it feels like we are balancing on a knife-edge between lovely snow and dreadful slush.
I spent a very sweaty couple of hours clearing  heavy wet snow from the kayak tent and a few other places.
In the evening we headed to Kramfors to listen to the author Mats Jonsson talking about his latest book, about how the forest Sami were removed from their land, and almost removed from history, by the Swedish State administration.  His story is given added poignancy when we hear his grandfather was a reindeer owning Sami, but the family only discovered that when the grandfather had died.  Jan is three-quarters through his book and has written a lot more about this on her blip.