Dear visitors,

the beginning of 2010 was very cold and snowy, in some places the depth of snow was above 1/2 metre. Then came the most spectacular spring melt in many years (pictures from that time can be seen in another gallery - The Great Melt of 2010).

After that the spring proceeded slowly, but in middle May came a warm spell and I was happy to have taken a week off at that time to make a wanderful boat trip on river Gauja from which some pictures can be seen in this gallery. In the same week I went to Latgale, the south eastern part of Latvia, which is a very multicultural place with beautiful catholic, ortodox and old believers churches (like the one in Folvarka seen here).

Another set of beautiful recollections comes from a misty June morning in Kemeru bog (in Kemeri National Park). Also during a fishing trip on Aiviekste river in early August nature set up a beautiful show.

Peteris