Friday 9 August 2013

POLAR SUMMER POSTCARDS II


It is the sky that gives all that space to breath. Those trees that are not there, making everything to look like all is very close to you. The roots of mountains, their tops and the valleys in between them.


Then you see a small rock and think that it is very far and very big when you reach it. But it is just very close and very small.


There are the stones that hide secrets inside. Forty to sixty million years old secrets of plants that were hiding under a glacier all this time. Plants that grew there when it was very warm. Now it is all in permafrost.


The village that naps in sunlight during night time. The long shadows. The wind that does not reach anything, and comes from the sea or the glaciers. The moment when the wind stops.


The line between the known and unknown. The touchable.


The clouds that can travel to see it all as long as they do not get stuck on mountain tops. Some of them were hanging in the same place for three days.


The colours that sometimes were there and then it all could turn to black and white.

Summer continues. In Finland it is very green and warm, compared to the polar images above. The thunder storm of last night did not come. More boat trips, statue museum, bicycling, swimming. The starry nights are here. Still I continue to think of those landscapes. 

Have a beautiful weekend!

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Thank you Anna Emilia for all thes postcards, I can't imagine there is such a mysterious and strong place somewhere on our earth. Have a nice weekend!

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  3. such beautiful landscapes! thanks for sharing...

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  4. in the coldest of places, you seem to have touched the essence of summer. Your summer posts have been an absolute dream. Thanks for sharing <3 xmoira

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  5. Thank you so much dear everyone for your kind whispers! Happy if you enjoy my travel landscapes!

    <3

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  6. how beautiful! it seems like your summer has been very cosy so far :)

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  7. your words are like a story, the photos a landscape i would dream to see with my own eyes. thank you!

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  8. I am in love with this very first image...

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