It has been snowing a bit more since yesterday. I went for a walk by the lake Pyhäjärvi here in our home village today, and took some pictures. We must enjoy this weather now. 🙂
Ice and snow… and the sun was shining brightly!
Just ‘hiding behind stuff’… 😀
And I took two pictures in our garden as well:
Afternoon sun.
-Leena
The first two pictures I took in our garden yesterday.
In the November sunshine…
The Finnish autumn came for the bougainvillea – for my ‘mini Spain’ long ago…
The next five pictures I took in our garden today.
It has been snowing a bit, just a little bit.
A common poppy pod.
So this is ‘the second snow’ for this season…
Leaves of a rose bush.
It’s -3 degrees Celsius right now, at around 14.15 pm.
And these last two pictures I took today as well. I’ve been watching cross-country skiing again. The Cross Country World Cup has began in Ruka, Kuusamo, here in Finland this weekend.
And I’ve been watching this competition and making this blog post at the same time – combining two hobbies. 🙂
-Leena
We collected acorns in October.
First these…
…and then these – about 300 acorns in total. Some of the acorns were already sprouting, lovely. 🙂 We collected them from the ground, under big oak trees, here in our home village.
The first two pictures I took in October, the rest of the pictures in this blog post I took today.
So, we planted the acorns in our garden, here…
…and here.
And we also collected some acorns for the land that my boyfriend now has in the region of Etelä-Pohjanmaa – South Ostrobothnia, about 180 kilometres north from our home, that is to say, we already planted the acorns there, into the forest ground. There’s a certain spot or place, an island actually, where broad-leaved trees are growing in the forest, but there are no oak trees, not yet…
So, this is all an experiment, with these acorns, just nice and interesting.
I collected spruce cones, too. These were on the ground in our yard, on the driveway. We don’t have big spruce trees, but there are spruces just outside our yard. I started to collect these just because I think that they are lovely, but my boyfriend said that we could try to get seeds from these as well. Well, that’s a good idea, an interesting experiment, too. The cones have been drying inside the house now.
And I was shoveling compost, emptying a compost bin a bit today. We have this year-round composter for kitchen (and garden) waste.
We shovel the compost into this container, where the process continues, and in the end, it all goes back to nature again. 🙂
-Leena