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…)
Well, this was on Friday a week ago… The greenest guy in the house! A green huntsman spider.
And by the lake Pyhäjärvi here in our home village, a week ago as well…
In the woods travelling away from the lake…
One of the campfires that we have had in our garden lately.
And then came March, the first four pictures on Sunday:
G`morning!
We still have the upper part of our Christmas tree on the terrace…
The next eight pictures on Wednesday:
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.)
Hmm… Christmas? No…..
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:
The amount of snow varies, the snow melted a bit again…
The next nine pictures I took yesterday, on Friday:
Mooorning! It had been snowing a bit again…
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. 😀
Small rose flowers in our living room.
Sunshine & blue…
Solar power.
Hmm… And in the sky, the moon…
Garden campfire yesterday. The sky was clear at night, the moon, stars…
Okay so the very tiny amount of snow we had melted. It was ´the fifth snow´for this season here where I´m living. So now, again, no snow…
So it´s what´s on television, Viaplay, Netflix, etc. that counts. 😉 This was on Sunday, my morning coffee… And I watched my favourite Christmas movie once again. AChristmas Carol, based on my favourite Christmas book, by CharlesDickens.
Snaps from yesterday, the last day of the year, New Year´s Eve it was:
Here in our home village, travelling back from grocery store…
By a December´s rose again… And the sun was shining, again! And the sky was clear and starry at night. It was wonderful. 🙂
Just a few of the many lovely lights outside around here last night…
The rest of the pictures I took today, on the first day of the year 2020, on New Year´s Day:
Well, it was a bit cold at night…
The sun was shining a bit today as well…
I started watching the New Year´s Concert of The Vienna Philharmonic. I love the tradition, and the intermission programme, too.
Green edibles growing in the kitchen. They are growing pretty fast. 🙂
November, the fifth season, has been grey, brown, black… And then it started to really rain. But yesterday finally: SNOW! (The ‘third snow’ for this season.)
So now some November snapshots:
And then I was like…
This was three weeks ago, after our ‘second snow’ for this season had melted. I truly loved our Jack-O’-Lantern, he was a very expressive guy. 😀
Still learning archery… I lost one of my arrows last summer. I shot it towards the woods and it got lost in the greenery. I think that the guy who cut the many tiny rowan trees there the other week found it and… this is how I found the arrow. Thanks! 🙂
By the lake Pyhäjärvi near our home on Wednesday this week. Well, that’s kinda light blue…
On Thursday:
Umm, our greenhouse in November. So I love all the seasons. But… meh now already… And it has been a bit difficult to get up in the morning lately. This late November thing…
Winter is coming.
This was three weeks ago, almost right after my previous blog post. I looked out the window and saw this tiny insect flying outside and jumping on the snow there. Winter came for the tiny creature…
Yesterday morning, this was a lovely surprise – I heard the rain still pour down at night! And they say that the weather will now stay a bit wintry at least for a while…
Yesterday afternoon.
I’m reading Moominvalley in November for the second time. I read it for the first time many years ago when I still lived in Turku. The book was a bit odd experience to me – I was reading it and all the time I was waiting for the book to begin, so to speak, and… then I suddenly had just read the whole book. I don’t know what it was, but all the Moomin books are just great, I have now read them all and I love them, and I did like the November book already earlier, I love the language and so on, but something ‘made me waiting’… So now I must read this November book again so that I can see if I now get the nuances a bit better, or something, because I’m altogether a better person now. Well, no… But Now that I’m reading it again, I can say that I follow the book a bit better. And of course I like it a lot, and I like Ruttuvaari – Grandpa Grumble. 🙂
Today:
A pleasant morning…
Also because… I was watching cross-country skiing again. The Cross-Country World Cup started for this season already yesterday, here in Finland, in Northern Finland, in Ruka, in Kuusamo, one of my favourite places in the world. 🙂
And then sunshine! And our juhannusruusu – ‘Finnish Midsummer rose‘ bush again. This bush was loaded with white flowers in summer, but I don’t think I have any pictures of it, oh dear oh dear…
Blue sky! Haven’t seen that for a while.
The day is short; the length of the day today, here where I’m living, is 6 h13 min.
It snowed yesterday evening and at night. So this is ‘the second snow’ for this season here where I’m living. But they say that it will Rain tomorrow… and on Sunday… Well, because taking pics is a good and an efficient way to enjoy snow now, I took pics in our garden today:
Coffee and contemplation… (-I’m a big fan of Stranger Things, too…) I saw this pic and it made me wonder why our terrace fence is sh*tty… 🙂
Well, this was yesterday evening here in our home village, it had already been snowing a bit.
Snowed…
“Oh no, not again!” ? 🙂
Juhannusruusu – ‘Finnish Midsummer rose‘ bush.
And books I just started reading… The House at Pooh Corner and Visit SunnyChernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places. Interesting things…
Summer’s flowers, winter beauties…
Raspberry leaves.
‘The House at Pooh Corner‘ occurred to me because… We are building this garden shed in one corner of our garden, hmm…
Tiny oak trees… Now we can really see them. 🙂 They grew from acorns in the summer this year.
Okay, this is the first time ever that we have cherries in our garden.
The small cherry tree had 11 flowers and a few cherries. That was so nice!
The young bush cherry had many many flowers, and many cherries, too. And there are still fruits ripening in the bush. I didn’t know what to expect. 😀 Love them!
The first ever ‘open-field’ cucumbers from our garden.
And there’s more growing, this was yesterday. I planted only one plant, one stem, this stem in the pic. Just a delicious experiment…
Cucumbers in our greenhouse. Greenhouse cucumbers grow really well and are so delicious! We’ve already had several.
Two pics that I took yesterday evening when I closed the windows and the door in the greenhouse:
More cucumbers growing…
I wonder if these tiny ones will still grow…
We saw a bat, the first bat here for this year, on 30th July late in the evening. It was flying, flapping in our garden and in the woods.
Some flower pics that I took in our garden yesterday:
Clematis, by the oak tree.
Tricolor daisy and a friend.
Garden rose and a friend.
Red flax and a friend. Friends everywhere in the garden in August. 🙂
Lily
Sunflower
They come in August.
Good morning today:
With clarkia amoena or godetia flowers…
And a busy friend here as well. 🙂
A little bit of rain and then sunshine again. It’s nice when it rains a bit, it has been rather dry all summer again.
I Have to go to the library today and I should wash the car…
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. 🙂
