AUGUST

Summer continues with reflections and swimming, pink sunsets, by-swimmers, reading books in shadowy parks. Wild strawberries. 

It has been very warm and sunny with a few thunder storms that were forgotten already the next day with new tickling sunshine.

Welcome August and more sunshine with tiny hints of changing season!

SUMMER CITIES

Summer cities filled with bicycles, roses, sunshine.

Hollyhocks, night birds.

Cities filled with colours.

Cities filled with canals, more bicycles and early sunsets.

Cities filled with boats and blue night skies.

To the summer cities traveling by train over bridges, under seas.

Oh so many boats!

From some dream destinations, called The Fairy.

Wind gentle, lights turning on.

Many friendly summer city beings.

Summer holiday travels will continue, happy july!

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!

POLAR SUMMER POSTCARDS

The mining village that was abandoned, and looked after by the glacier. The light on the glacier that coloured the whites, the greys and the turquoises. The sea that had white peaks on waves once in a while. 

A walk to pass mountains. To a valley with a lake and a red house. Tea water boiling, a greeting message on the table from the previous visitor. Beds to sleep. Small glacier streams close by. Reindeers on the moss. All so silent. The thought about the backyards of mountains, what lies there?

Mountain Avens, a hint of blue sky. Peeking glaciers on all directions. The sound of running water in the glacial streams.

A night boat trip. The light at midnight. The reflections of the glacier so alive. By boat, going around small ice floes. Curvy water road. Puffins, Little Auks.

The silence with songs of birds. Searching for the deepest turquoise. Secrets for sure.

A night floater, brushing his/her beard.

Water roads

Night boat trip adventures. ♥

Happy August, have a calm weekend!

POSTCARDS FROM THREE SOUTHERN CITIES BY TRAIN, CHAPTER II, THE MARKET

Lunch time greetings from a trip two weeks ago. Fresh scents middle of salty sea winds. Bright colors, hunger growing. Always playing a game in markets, imagining how things that are next to each other would taste together. From these a favorite might be radishes with beetroots (beetroots cut in very thin slices, olive oil, black pepper and salt over and to oven to make them to crispy chips, accompanied by fresh radish salad). Or White is White -tea (blend of grapefruit and aloe vera) and Amande -sugar (almond sugar).


For today, mushroom sauce with potatoes, cantaloupe-cucumber salad and rhubarb soup with whipped oat cream. 


Blueberry leaves are drying for a winter´s tea blend. Maybe this weekend some raspberry leaves could be found to be dried too. The weather map shows rain for the days ahead. Many books waiting to be read.


Have a sunny weekend!
Bon appétit!

POSTCARDS FROM THREE SOUTHERN CITIES BY TRAIN, CHAPTER I, THE LAST STOP, THE SEA

Greetings from the South! Sunshine, warmth, new fresh tastes, scents of salty sea and lavender. Pebbles and steep staircases under feet. Dark nights. Warm waves, wind in hair. Tasting the sea from a finger tip to believe that it really is a sea. Clear waters. Turquoise color.


Three Southern cities by train, a small summer holiday. Every trip should have a lighthouse on its way. The last stop of this trip ended by the sea. 


Already feeling unreal.


The sun shines and warms back here at home. Swimming waters getting warmer too. Light in the summer nights.