All posts filed under: Landscape and nature
Winter morning
Winter roads
The road is not slippery even though it is covered by a thick layer of dry snow.
Lake walk
The lake is frozen now and a thick layer of snow stops the noises that the ice layers makes. Cracks, pangs, and bubbling sound between water and ice. The snow is like a blanket that puts everything on hold until the temperature starts to rise, the days will get longer, and spring will push to open the door of the winter.
Early morning encounter
Some of the photos in this blog are not linked to the blog post I write. That is because I do not have the camera with me at all times. I am reviewing the photos I took in the end of the year in Eastern Finland, while getting on with life here in Tampere. Early in the morning on Friday, I was out for the morning walk with our dog. I went to the park […]
Forest road
Two photos of a forest road in Kontiola, Estern Finland
Let’s look forward
Read this quite from the head of NASA: ‘We are all citizens of planet hearth.‘ Let’s stop messing up with the planet. Let’s look forward. Happy new year to all of you, wherever you are.
Forest clearing
I had an early walk this morning. The wind was blowing strong and carrying new snow.
A quote from Pascal
Today I found an interesting quote in an Italian book I am reading. It is from Pascal and says (in Italian): ‘Pascal scrive che noi riusciamo a conoscere la verità non soltanto con la ragione, ma anche con il cuore. Però Pascal, con la parola cuore, non allude ai sentimenti, bensì alla capacità originaria di riconoscere l’evidenza.’
Past one pm
It is just past one pm here in Kontiola. I am walking on the frozen Pyhäjärvi. The sun has started to go down and it will be dark by three pm. The temperature is about -20C and the cold seems to have stopped all the sounds and movements. Everything is still and quiet. I hear my crunchy footsteps on the frozen snow. Look up to the horizon and feel happy to be part of all […]