COUNTING TREES, A GIFT LIST OF DECEMBER

These streets and views in different weather became very familiar to me during November, a month in a residency in Reykjavík. My Travelogue grew in wind, in snowy days and in sunshine and frost pinching nose. With dear new friends and so many shared teacups and cakes, songs of ravens. The lighthouse was twinkling, the Aurora Borealis danced on the sky. Swimming water was warm, the mountains snowy. The paintings were done with the support from Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

If you are looking something to give to your dearest, these are some items available with my illustrations:
Breathe and Be, A Book About Mindfulness Poems illustrated book, also available here
Blue Skies umbrella
Red Cap Cards stationary
In Flight temporary tattoos
Mon Herbier herbarium book
Casa di fiaba illustrated book
L'ours et le soleil illustrated book
Spring Allotment poster
Garden of A Moon Gazer poster
Dandelion Fields Box of Labels
Dandelion Fields Notecards

Kisses, warmth, long walks and snowy peaks!

6 YEARS, ETERNAL NATURE

Spring is here, heart is restless. 

Today my small company turned already 6 years old. Thank you for your support and following my little adventures. It is the nature that matters the most still. It is comforting to see how it lives and has been living for millions of years. The mountains that once were volcanoes, the sea that was different once. The plants that return every spring and bloom and grow. 

We are just loosing it by consuming so much. Let's try to live with a fewer things and enjoy the silence instead. It is rarity. Let's keep on walking, bicycling and learning from it!

Thank you for visiting here and for your heart-warming comments, without them this place would not exist!

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(This blog once meant so much to me, thank you so much for being part of it! It seems that it is updated very seldom these months. It is still here because of the stories and the adventures in the past and hopefully for the stories and the adventures in the future too. It is just not updated so often. More frequent stories you will find at my Instagram. Hope to see you there too!)

UNDER CITRUS TREES, HAPPY 2015!

Happy New Year 2015, many new beautiful adventures, sunshine, ocean waves and curvy roads to walk!

Happy to be back in a winter storm, skiing, drinking tea and reading your words again. Planning new adventures on painting table and around it too. While the wind covers windows in snow.

Winter ♥

WINTER MAGIC TO YOU

Wishing you warmth, smiles, a few kindly hugging snowflakes and peace! Lots of winter magic and many many happy melodies for the New Year! Let's take it easy now and enjoy the silent moments. Let's remember the small animals in the forests and the ones who might be lonely. Thanking you for visiting here! Many many smiles to you! See you soon again! ♥ ♥ ♥

BEHIND RIVER, BEHIND MOUNTAIN

Friends, morning tea in bed, walking where it looks the nicest, over bridges, climbing up hills/mountains, new landscapes.

New perspective. Behind hills and mountains more hills and mountains. A moment of a blue patch of sky.

Silence in forest, birds, fresh air. Walking until it is time to fall asleep. And the same tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after that day.

At home. dreaming of new travels.

Happy last day of November  ♥

EMERALD GREEN TIME OF THE YEAR

It is the emerald green time of the year. It is a rainy day after many sunny and warm ones. It is a day I heard my voice first time on a radio interview. It is an evening after a wonderful week filled with so much beauty. This was quite wonderful.

The sound of the rain while walking, the poor Mr Crow. The scent of birch trees. The moment when remembering that this won´t last long. The nights that are so bright. The Moon that is almost full. Sauna and a little bit more painting.

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EMBRACED IN GREEN

Afternoon walks, sunset bicycling. Heatwave and thunderstorm. Pouring rain and then calm and sunny again. Hems of dresses and bare feet. Blueberry sorbet in a park on green grass. Late nights reading books outdoors. The fragile scent of Bird Cherries flying in the wind. Hello summer, good morning all the green!

Just a little reminder, if searching a little bit of summer for you or yours, some of it can be found at my small online shop. Edit: Some new photos of the prints added to the shop.

Summer smiles!

BEHIND THE SEA

On Friday evening the blackbirds were singing. On Saturday it was sunny. On Sunday it snowed. Behind our windows, someone was sewing a dress.

The pink and the rose curtains. The slowly waving shadows of trees. Friends ♥

The saltiness of the sea, the comfort of the sound of round pebbles.

Those little moments when you just listen and watch and see the history around.

The people, their houses and the fences. Their mail and the ones who would like to read it too.

Waking up in the sounds of snow, making the city so silent. Pancakes for breakfast.

Some familiar patterns.

On the way to a museum, the best pink and yellow art is seen.

Out from the museum, the best lime green art is seen.

Friends ♥

Behind the sea I feel always so well.

Have a beautiful March!

(Last photo by Paula.)

WHITE, GREY

Soft whiteness arrived this morning. The silence and the same time a new sound under walking steps.

The colours starting to hide.

Everything so still.

The same time some colours become more visible.

The city behind the small lake disappears.

No-one there.

Reaching/hiding.

Turning back home icy flakes on nose and in eyes. Fingers around a hot tea cup.

Welcome winter!