Saturday, June 30, 2018

My head turns to the left and it moves

The photographs were taken on May 19th in Nuuksio.

Today I rode the bicycle to Nurmijärvi, enjoying the summer landscape. It was sunny but cool, 14 °C. So far this year I have got 2,905 km riding the bicycle.

(Posting title is from the poem Captain Lovell by Gabrielle Calvocoressi.)

Friday, June 29, 2018

For all the world like honest

The photographs were taken on May 19th in Nuuksio.

We are getting some rain today, and temperature dropped from 26 °C to 14 °C.

(Posting title is from the poem Eyes Like Leeks by Linda Gregerson.)

Thursday, June 28, 2018

No one really wants a king anyway

The photographs were taken on May 19th in Nuuksio, visiting nine lakes north of Siikajärvi: Kolperinlampi, Sikoilampi, Sarvilampi, Iso-Holma, Pitkä Saarijärvi, Ympyrkäinenlampi, Holma-Saarijärvi, Kukkoilampi and Kolmoislammit. I saw two nesting pairs of Gavia stellata.

(Posting title is from the poem What it Look Like by Terrance Hayes.)

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

I’d like to see it that way

The photographs were taken in Vaakkoi on May 12th. You may wonder how it is possible that in one photograph there are lingonberries and in another blueberry flowers.

(Posting title is from the poem I’d Like to See It by Norman Fischer.)

Monday, June 25, 2018

I would like to describe a light

The photographs were taken in Vaakkoi on May 12th.

(Posting title is from the poem I Would Like to Describe by Zbigniew Herbert.)

Sunday, June 24, 2018

To wake into a slumberous tenderness

The photographs were taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

This morning I rode the bicycle for 1 1/2 hours, visiting Espoo, riding from Leppävaara to Oittaa.

(Posting title is from the poem The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats.)

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Left to our own devices, we devise

The photographs were taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

This morning I rode the bicycle for two hours, around the airport. The wind was rather strong.

(Posting title is from the poem Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve by Carolyn Kizer.)

Friday, June 22, 2018

I caught a little rhyme

The photographs were taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

Today is a cool and rainy day, befitting the traditional Midsummer's Eve celebrations in Finland.

(Posting title is from the poem Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve Merriam.)

Thursday, June 21, 2018

And this is an alien city

The photograph was taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

This morning I walked for 2 1/2 hours in Sipoonkorpi national park, around Fiskträsk lake. I didn't meet anyone else on the paths, some of which were so small as to be almost nonexistent.

My 4G wifi router is broken due to the battery swelling and breaking the device. I need to buy a new one, and it won't be made by ZTE.

(Posting title is from the poem A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. by Amy Lowell.)

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

You watch their brains navigate channels

The photograph was taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

(Posting title is from the poem I Move through London Like a Hotep by Raymond Antrobus.)

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

And leave to thee such treasury

The photographs were taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

(Posting title is from the poem A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will by Isabella Whitney.)

Monday, June 18, 2018

Could have been anyplace

The photograph of a Giant's kettle was taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

(Posting title is from the poem London Crossfigured by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.)

Sunday, June 17, 2018

I would have

The photographs were taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

In six days I have got eleven hours of exercise, six hours commuting by bicycle and five hours walking in forests. Today I'm planning to take it easy and rest.

(Posting title is from the poem London Exchange by Eileen Myles.)

Saturday, June 16, 2018

I imagine them now, they follow

The photograph was taken in Sipoonkorpi National Park on May 11th.

Today I walked for 3 1/2 hours at Kytäjä-Usmi outdoor area in Hyvinkää. It was quiet, I met only three people walking on the paths, and they were near the parking place.

(Posting title is from the poem Blue by Carl Phillips.)

Friday, June 15, 2018

For words they are but wind

The photographs were taken on May 10th.

This morning I walked for 1 1/2 hours in Petikko. The fields were dry, waiting for rain.

(Posting title is from the poem An Order Prescribed, by Is. W., to two of her Younger Sisters Serving in London by Isabella Whitney.)

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Pain deeper than the blue inside a flame

The photographs were taken on May 10th.

So far this year I have got 2,670 km riding the bicycle. I may be getting a summer flu, because yesterday and today it was quite hard to commute by bicycle, even though the conditions were perfect: dry, sunny, a little bit of wind.

(Posting title is from the poem Blue by Chris Abani.)

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Pauses to feed the hunger of the eye

The photographs were taken on May 10th.

(Posting title is from the poem In a London Drawingroom by George Eliot.)

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Required to split the proverbial hair

The photograph was taken on May 10th.

We got some rain during the night and in the morning, clearing the air of dust and making the landscape green. But it was little and didn't really help with the drought.

(Posting title is from the poem Blue by Katrina Roberts.)

Monday, June 11, 2018

With that great light going on

The photograph was taken on May 10th.

(Posting title is from the poem Blue by Robert L. Jones.)

Sunday, June 10, 2018

And mark in every face I meet

The photograph was taken in Helsinki on May 9th.

The weather forecast promises quite dry weather for next week also, although there might be some rain on Tuesday. The last time we had some real rain was on May 3rd, and the drought starts to show in the landscape.

(Posting title is from the poem London by William Blake.)

Saturday, June 9, 2018

Till the moment it's not. It's not.

The photographs were taken in Otaniemi on May 9th.

(Posting title is from the poem Poem by Maureen N. McLane.)

Friday, June 8, 2018

Stare in rapt near-idiocy

The photographs were taken on May 5th in Petikko.

I have got 2,538 km riding the bicycle so far this year.

(Posting title is from the poem A Midsummer Night’s Stroll by Philip Nikolayev.)

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Where the skies are so blue

The photograph was taken on May 5th in Petikko.

This morning it was cold, 6 °C, but in the afternoon it warmed up to 16 °C.

(Posting title is from the song Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd.)

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The lights tell their memories

The photographs were taken on May 5th in Petikko.

The temperature was at 6 °C this morning. I wore woollen socks when commuting by bicycle.

(Posting title is from the song The lights of Moscow by Georg Ots.)

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

The primitive light in which thy life began

The photographs were taken on May 1st.

This morning was cool, 8 °C. For tomorrow morning the weather forecast promises 6 °C. Quite a change from the long warm period. But no rain.

(Posting title is from the poem Fog by Louise Imogen Guiney.)

Monday, June 4, 2018

Well we got no choice

The photographs were taken on May 1st.

Weather is dry and cool, 16 °C. There was 10 m/s headwind when I commuted home by bicycle.

(Posting title is from the song School's Out by Alice Cooper.)

Sunday, June 3, 2018

There are sensations that begin in the world

The photograph was taken on May 1st.

This morning I walked for 1 1/2 hours. It was already quite warm at 9 am. The last time we had rain was on May 3rd. Since then it has been warm and dry.

(Posting title is from the poem Son of Fog by Dean Young.)

Friday, June 1, 2018

Eyes floating, feet on invisible ground

The photographs were taken on April 30th at lake Kaitalampi in Luukki.

I commuted by bicycle every day this week. So far this year I have got 2,373 km riding the bicycle.

(Posting title is from the poem A.M. Fog by Mark Jarman.)