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The last pictures from August

Now the ones from August I talked about yesterday…

The first two pics I took at the lake Pyhäjärvi, on a dock, 8th August. At the end of the dock.

The next five pics are peony poppies, 9th August. I thought I already had seen all my peony poppies this year, but all of a sudden there were two more – with colours totally different from my previous poppies this year. 🙂

Two pics of the first one…

And three of the other:

Nice surprises they were… 🙂

On August 21st we visited for the first time a bird watching tower quite near our home. It’s called Kauklaisten lintutorni in Finnish, Kauklainen bird watching tower in English. 🙂 It’s located in Rauma.

A beautiful, soft, quite harmonious view it was from the tower…

There’s also a walking trail there, but we visited only the tower – have to go back someday.

So, this was the last from August here in Owlnature. From now on it’s all about September, mushroom hunting, and so on… 🙂

-Leena

A plum fruit in the garden, autumn thoughts coming, too

One delightful plum fruit in our garden! Our plum tree really has grown and ripened one fruit this year. Well done, wonderfully happened, as this is the first whole year of the tree in our garden. It did have more than hundred flowers in spring, but I was hoping to get only two fruits, because that’s how it goes in the early years of the fruit tree’s life… Yeah well, I was actually hoping to get “any fruit”, so one purple fruit in the tree is a marvel. It looks quite amazing! 😀

My previous blog posts about the tree here and here.

This is even more amazing, because we already thought, at one point, that also this fruit had gone – one day I just couldn’t find it in the tree. I said that to my boyfriend, and he also searched the tree, and said that he couldn’t find the fruit either. What are we? A couple of morons? 😀

All of a sudden then, the fruit was there again, on another day… And it still grew bigger. Then suddenly it started to change colour from green to purple, and once it had started to do it, the colour change happened very quickly.

Wow, oh dear oh dear, I’m grateful! 🙂

So hey! It’s already September! But I’m actually quite content with the fact – the autumn may begin. 🙂 And in Owlnature, too. I was away from here for a while, because I had the moving in and out project, or an ordeal, as it turned out to be, a bit. 😀 – Too big closets to store your rubbish there, years of dirt in some spots in one’s student apartment, and so on, but it’s all over now. 🙂 But I do feel that I should have started, everything, that I’ve been doing now, and that I’m about to, hopefully, do next, already a year ago… Buuut enough of this right now, maybe a bit of reminiscing the old things later, again, and we have to rearrange this whole country home of ours here, too, every room, now. Aaand I still have some flower pics and some other pics, too, from August, that I’ll reminisce here in my blog a bit. And for this autumn I indeed have some plans, other than cleaning the house and everything, too, but let’s see what happens – just taking things easy… but very, very, seriously… ;D – And I can say that it all comes down to the fact that I want to grow mentally and I want to learn to do new things, too. And no matter how diminutive the new things are, it’s always an adventure. – Let us not destroy our inner child!

-Leena

Harvesting here, harvesting there…

Hello from Turku! It’s this moving in and out project again that I’ve been at… and now I’m saying hello from here, with a couple of pics.

My morning coffee here today. This is the last coffee pic that I post from here… so, that is why I’m so eager to say hello to the world, from here, now. 🙂

I just say that it’s truly interesting, enlightening and… educational to go through your belongings and your… rubbish, when you have lived in the same apartment for years, and if the place has been your student apartment… whoa! 😀

This was yesterday afternoon in our country home before heading for Turku. Strawberry ice cream and berries – raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries fresh from our garden, and blueberries fresh from the woods next to our garden.

And we’ve started digging up, harvesting, our potatoes. Home-grown potatoes look always so sweet and hilarious. 🙂 And they taste so delicious! Oh, and that lovely soil, too, like in this pic that I took here in my apartment in Turku today, before I started washing the potatoes a bit.

-Leena

It’s raining cats and dogs… on peony poppies…

Right now, it’s raining cats and dogs… so, I decided that it’s now a good time to publish the rest of the peony poppy flower pics that I have. I love rain, too, but right now I’m just having my coffee and I don’t feel like going outside at all… I just love hearing the sound of heavy rainfall on the roof and looking out the window now… 🙂

The first six pics are from Tuesday.

This must be the most peony-like peony poppy I’ve managed to catch up with this summer…

The same flower in the evening, after some heavy rainfall and hailing… Still so beautiful… 🙂

The rest of the pics are from yesterday.

Red, redder…

“Enough with the flowers already, and what do you mean with “raining cats”… and the freakin’ dogs, anyway?” :

🙂

-Leena

Just more peony poppies (July 31st & August 1st)

These days I’m taking as many pics of peony poppy flowers as I possibly have inspiration to take. And inspiration I have. 🙂 I’ve been having already too many pics to be published right away. So, with these pics we are still on the last day of July and on the first day of August. The first six pics are from Monday, August 1st.

Enjoying the red colour of the flower…

And the purple… and the sunshine…

The next two pics are from Sunday, July 31st. I took these pics late in the evening, just before I started to build the campfire that I had in the blog post on Monday…

I try not to be afraid to take pics in different kinds of light every once in a while…

I already had this, a bit blemished white peony poppy, in the blog post on July 31st. I was actually enchanted with this flower – it looked like a bit blemished fairy dress, or a bit blemished wedding dress, or a bit like my own white dress, a bit blemished by the Mediterranean Sea… 😮 🙂

On the left you can see the first cosmos flower before it opened for the first time the next day.

The rest of the pics are from Monday again.

More red…

It’s been mostly sunny lately, but we’ve experienced some heavy, very heavy rain showers – they have come like some tropical rain showers, except that we had some heavy hailing, too, for a while yesterday. And heavy rainfall and sunshine at the same time. – That’s so lovely! 🙂

I took pics of peony poppies yesterday and today as well – nobody’s surprised about that… 😉 The pics here in my blog a bit later…

-Leena

On the last day of July and on the first day of August…

More pics from yesterday, and some I took today. 🙂

Monkshood, extremely poisonous from roots to the tiny hoods, and we have so much of it in our garden – this is a very traditional plant in the old gardens in Finland. The man who build this house was very much a garden man, we’ve heard, so, no wonder – the fact can be seen in our garden today…

Some sort of marigold, very small marigold.

We can’t remember what this flower is… I’ve tried to google it, but no luck with that. EDIT: This flower is clarkia or godetia, silkkikukka in Finnish. Thanks for the answer, A! 🙂

More pics of my cornflowers. Many charming colours they have…

The first cosmos flower this summer, opened today, missing one petal. I had cosmos flowers last summer, too. These are growing from seeds, of course, and I like them a lot. 🙂

Butterfly flower, schizanthus, poor man’s orchid again…

And strawflowers again. Here it can be seen that our tall strawflowers and the shorter butterfly flowers as well as tiny marigolds are tight neighbours. 😀

Yesterday evening by the lake Pyhäjärvi, after some Nordic walking and eating blueberries again. It was so nice to sit on a bench – the air was perfect, not at all warm, not at all cold. The sun was shining, but wasn’t warming, and the wind was blowing wonderfully. 🙂 And the sound of waves, just lovely…

A campfire in our garden last night. It can be said that this was my birthday campfire – it was not only the last day of July yesterday, but also my birthday (and by the way, the birthday of Harry Potter —> WTF? -Oh yes, says a Harry Potter fan (that’s me) here, aaand, it was also the birthday of J.K. Rowling herself. 😀 ) And… how old am I…? I’m actually a bit younger than Harry Potter… ;D Just a bit…

-Leena

Peony poppies on the last day of July

Hi! I have this moving in and out project going on, maybe I reminisce about it later here in my blog, too, but now I need a break from thinking about it… So, I didn’t have the time or energy to take flower pics earlier this week – I’ve missed some peony poppies now, there has been so many of them, but… oh yes, today, I do have some pics here… 😉 As many pics of peony poppies as you can possibly imagine that I have, that I took, today, when it’s already August tomorrow…

One of my ‘wild’ poppies above, all the other peony poppies in this post have grown from the seeds that I planted this summer.

It was raining heavily yesterday evening, really pouring down with rain for a while – we haven’t experienced anything like that earlier this summer. It was lovely, but I also thought: “There goes some of the flowers, again…” But the flowers that hadn’t still opened, all the plants, got just the wonderful water that they needed.