25 Jan 2009

Mustavalkoisia tunnelmia ... Monochrome moods

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Ratsastustallit ... Riding stables

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Mäntymetsä ... Pine forest

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Pieni joki ... A narrow river

22 Jan 2009

Sky Watch Friday N:o 28

Time flies and here the world is again presenting the skies over the past week.

In southern Finland we finally got the winter but before that we had one rather lovely sunset. Or it was actually at its best about 20 minutes after the sun dissapeared. This was before the snow but the water was frozen, ie it was clear and quite cold.

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Then it clouded over and got a bit warmer but stayed dry and here we are at one of Finland's round about 80 000 lakes, which also is frozen over.

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After that it has been cloudy and quite mild but the clouds did eventually bring a welcome ingredient as I am strangely enough fond of snow.

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This was round about at five pm today and the sky had a weird violet shade and it was slowly snowing.

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These last two images I took after my evening walk with the dogs at about 10 pm tonight using a stand. The snowing had increased and it was quite heavy now. But no wind was blowing so it was pleasant enough at only -1 centigrades.

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Vihdoinkin talvi ... Finally winter

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Kanerva lähikuvassa ... Heather in close up

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Ei tartte näitä pelätä tapaavansa tällä hetkellä!
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21 Jan 2009

Watery Wednesday N:o 19

This weeks Nature Blog 2009 theme for WW is all about ice and ice crystals - which is water too - only in its frozen form.

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Luca was here!

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