Icy Monoliths and a Chilly Avenue

Spent a good while outside today. The heavy work was moving the summer wheels from the new car to the cellar. A wheel and tyre can be fairly heavy and the last one on the pile has to be lifted above head-height. I also moved several loads of wood from the wood shed into the cellar, so it is warm and dry when required.
I finished off the outdoor section of my day with a brisk walk, going a bit further than usual, to a weekend cottage owned by an ex-colleague. She wasn't there but her husband has created a nice path where he walked the dog, which I followed for a while. I can't resist a path leading off into the forest to an unknown goal. When they bought a place a few years back he planted an avenue of birch trees. That's the extra picture taken just before the sun set.
The main picture is of the ice monoliths, which are actually sections of the ice that formed around the inside of the water butt. Ice sculpture has become popular in northern Sweden, but it's usually done with a block of river ice and a chain saw. Here I've left the water to freeze in a natural way. The monoliths slowly change form as the ice sublimates into water vapour.
"Sublimate" - there's a good word, describing the process by which frozen water goes directly to vapour without passing the liquid stage. So although the temperature is below zero all the time the ice is still rounding off and disappearing.
Drove into town in the electric car. The hybrid car was automatic but you still felt it changing gear, the new car just smoothly speeds up or slows down. It is very comfortable to drive.  We were off to town for the last film studio meeting this year. The film was "The Holdovers".  In my opinion not a great film, but it is very good film. Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian) gave it 4/5 stars which I find very fair.