A nature story / poem

Okay, should I call this now `quarantine poetry´, or what…? Anyway, I came up with this story / poem on Wednesday, and wrote it on Wednesday and yesterday.

Sunshine in the early spring, a peaceful serene day
How peppy, you´ll see, a hare is hopping amidst the dry hay
Time to rest, for a wanderer, by a pond
the scenery´s mellow
A little stream, the sound you seek, when you do not
miss the snow.

A campfire feels like home, she looks up at the tall trees
Evening falls. The forest, the stories... Write now,
no one sees!
- A cheerful greeting - Then a quiet leaving. She says
smiling "That was an owl."
What you do not see is there to be sought, playing
a meaningful role.

Moss all around, the campfire, the scents, out there
is no light
Flames dance in the air, the words, expect nothing, then
feel the might
At night, stand guard, the fire, pen and paper, oh,
how the day is old
Be curious. The hoot - ask yourself what it told.

Embers, morning´s cold, thoughts are fresh on paper,
the day´s birdsong, fair
She steps out of the woods, it´s so bright in a field, now
into the woods hops the hare
Nature has its rhythm, wisdom in the moment, the best
now is the spring
The road goes on, she stops "On second thoughts...",
back to the woods she heads and starts to sing.

- Leena, March 18-19, 2020

Heard the blackbird sing

It is a sign of spring! – We heard the blackbird sing for the first time this year here on Monday evening this week. It sounded like magic. 🙂

Swans, too, have been loud, by the lake, lately. We usually hear them in the evening and/or at night. Yesterday for example they were quiet in the evening, but at around 2 am then, they were very loud again.

The first five pics on Thursday:

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Morning! It had been snowing / sleeting just a bit again…

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That did not last long, it was +5 degrees Celsius again in the afternoon:

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The little oak tree still has some of its leaves.

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Yesterday, on Friday:

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No snow good morning!

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But it was windy again in the daytime.

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Garden campfire in the evening. We have had campfires in the garden lately as we have been building the garden shed…

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And late in the evening it suddenly started to snow when I was standing by the fire. It was Real cold winter snow, and for a while it came down like here in the pic above.

Today:

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It´s still -1 degrees Celsius, and it´s (enough) windy again as well.

garden shed

The shed. Plank by plank… We have been building this garden shed, now there´s the roof and the walls. This has been a lot of work and fun. 🙂

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Snow, eww… 😉

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Little birds are singing loud everywhere…

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´Snowflash´ and stuff

March came and so did snow. So let´s feast our eyes on that white for a bit again (or still?)… :p (Too many pictures in this blog post, but this is ´for the record´and spring is already in the air…)

green huntsman spider

Well, this was on Friday a week ago… The greenest guy in the house! A green huntsman spider.

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And by the lake Pyhäjärvi here in our home village, a week ago as well…

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In the woods travelling away from the lake…

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One of the campfires that we have had in our garden lately.

And then came March, the first four pictures on Sunday:

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G`morning!

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We still have the upper part of our Christmas tree on the terrace…

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The next eight pictures on Wednesday:

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I still found a cone in the Christmas tree. 🙂 (I found 41 cones when it was time to take the tree to pieces in January.)

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Hmm… Christmas? No…..

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It was windy, as it has been many a time this winter, no permanent snow cover here in the southernmost part of Finland, but windy Yes…

On Thursday:

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The amount of snow varies, the snow melted a bit again…

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The next nine pictures I took yesterday, on Friday:

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Mooorning! It had been snowing a bit again…

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It´s very nice that there has still been snow, because ´the spring in the air´feels more like a real spring when there´s some snow melting. 😀

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Small rose flowers in our living room.

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Sunshine & blue…

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Solar power.

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Hmm… And in the sky, the moon…

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Garden campfire yesterday. The sky was clear at night, the moon, stars…

But this morning:

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Well, grey morning!

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My morning coffee ideas in the living room…

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In the afternoon, just for the record…

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