Kevätpäivän tasaus ... Spring equinox

Tänäänhän oli se tärkeä virstanpylväs. Vaikka aika lailla talvista vielä on. Silti näin tänään ihmeekseeni ensimmäiset pienet krookuksien lehtien vihreät päät mullan yllä paikassa, josta lumi oli jo sulannut pois. Kylläpä se piristi vaikka Porkkalan niemen meri on edelleen jään peitossa niin kauas kuin silmä siintää.

It was today that important milestone. Quite wintery it still is though. However today I saw the first green tips of crocus leaves sticking out of the ground in a place were the snow had melted away. That really cheered me up even if the sea ice still lies on the water at the Porkkala peninsula as far as the eye can see.


Jäätä, jäätä silmänkantamattomiin ... Ice, ice as far as the vision reaches


Niin myös lähempänä rantoja ... So also closer to the shore


Vaan eipä se ole ihan niin synkkää sentään. Tässä on jo pientä edistystä ... It's not quite that drull though. Here we have some progress.


Kun lokit alkavat lennellä mantereelle ja jopa alemmissa ilmakerroksissa se tietää hyvää ... When the seagulls return to the mainland and start to fly in the lower airspaces it is a good sign.


Niinhän se lumi hiljalleen sulaa pois ja paljastaa enemmän maata pikkulintujen tonkia ... So the snow slowly melts away revealing more earth for the little birds to rummage in.


Virtaavaa vettä voi ihastella koskella ja samalla pikku ystäväänikin ... Flowing water can be admired at the rapids and at the same time my little friend too.


Näinhän se virtaa ... And this way it flows


Toisaalta vielä voi myös nautiskella makromaailmasta ... On the other hand one can still enjoy the macro world.


Tai miksei ihmisen tekeleistä kuten tästä koristeellisesta lintujen ruokintapöydästä ... Or why not man made things like this decorative bird feeding table


Tai vaikka tällaisesta söpöstä traktorista ... Or this cute little tractor

Valokuvatorstai 124 - Murphyn laki

Vähän myöhässä mutta kuitenkin mukana. Minusta tuntuu, että Murphyn laki on vallinnut joskus silloin ennen kun tämä tönö pystytettiin. Löytyy Pikkalan kartanon alueelta.



Murphyn lain mukaista kai on sekin, että kun inhoan kaikkea graffittia niin sitten tuleekin vastaan tällainen, jota ei vaan voi inhota.



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This is a finnish meme happening on Thursdays. You are given a challenge to illustrate each week. This week it's all about Murphy's law (or Sod's law as it's called in England). The shackle has certainly encountered Murphy's law and the second image is one for me. I happen to hate graffiti and I always go on about it but who could hate such a cheerful creation.

My World Tuesday - Helsinki in a blizzard

Winter has returned with a vengance. We haven't had this much snow in one go even once before these last two days all winter long. Makes one wonder ... will there ever be a spring for us?

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Here are pictures from a street in Helsinki (the capital of Finland) under a snow storm. I know I said we would be moving further west from my town Espoo in my last post, as I do prefer the older kind of architecture but in all fairness I should perhaps not give a false impression that around were I live all is old and quaint as that is not the truth of the matter. Most is modern but that is not always completely boring either.






Trams are still part of the public transport system in Helsinki. Here are two of them passing eachother. (My car is the red Toyota parked on the left)


The house at the end I do find quite interesting. The electical wires above are for the trams. Snow plows, as the one on the right, are having a busy time.


On closer inspection it is a house of apartments allthough one could imagine that it would be some public building.

Thankyou to the My World team for this lovely meme.

Mellow Yellow Monday N:o 6

Here is the second edition of the yellow sign, car, indoors, house series for MYM

This is not a sign directing people to a royal gala. The only 'royalty' we have in Finland are the yearly chosen Tango King and Queen in the small town of Seinäjoki.
This sign indicates that the following stretch of road is part of the king's road, an ancient road that stretched from the west coast town and original capital of Finland called Turku to the commercial center of Vyborg in the east (now belonging to Russia since the peace negotiations after the second world war). The original road was built on order from the Swedish king during the time that Finland was a part of Sweden in the middle ages. Hence the name 'king's road'.


Just another little yellow car. Not quite so bright as the one in last week's post.


Photographs of frosted flowers on a yellow wall. Mum's kitchen again. The pictures were taken by dad (R.I.P.) during a rare cold spell in the middle of summer many years ago resulting in a frost rim around the flower petals and leaves in the early morning. Also the flower in the middle picture is yellow.


Just one of the many yellow houses that can be found around these parts. These days yellow is a favoured colour for painting houses with allthough traditionally houses used to be an earthy red colour with white corners like the buildings in the background.

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Sky Watch Friday N:o 31 - Urban skies

We've had very changeable wheather during the past week and I thought it would be nice to display a series of shots of how the sky over my place of residense has looked in all its variety.


Thick fog


Pale with just a hint of colour


Menacing clouds


Blue as it can be


Blue but clouding over


Pink dreams


Saturated with pink

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Mellow Yellow Monday N:o 5

Last week I was overworked with my study assignments and they are not done with yet but the urgent ones are now sent in, thank god. Thus I had no time for any fun, like this MYM meme for example. Still I've got no lack of yellow subjects and I decided to go with a bit of a theme, which will continue the same way for a few times to come.
I shall post pictures of a yellow sign, a yellow vehicle, something yellow indoors and a yellow house.

So here my mellow friends is the first one of five to come:

This sign indicates a rescue route to a housing complex, not to be blocked by parked cars


A rather brightly coloured little car. I thought it was cute.


The walls in my mum's kitchen are yellow and this is an Ivy plant that she has by the window


Here we have a slightly strange combination of a creamy coloured house with yellow corners

Yellow is mellow so be a good fellow and join in...

Ihmisen tekemää ... Man made

Aloitetaanpa helmikuu katselemalla ihmisen käden jälkeä.

Let's start February by looking at man made things.

Paikallisen ostosparatiisin sininen osio ... The blue section of my local shopping paradise


Vesihirviö, joka vahtii Espoonlahden uimahallia ... This water monster acts as the guard dog of my local swimming center


Ramsayn rannan rantahotellia vahtiva kuparilintu ... A copper bird guards the beach hotel Ramsayn Ranta.


Valot yössä ... Lights in the night