The photographs were taken in Nuuksio on July 1st.
Yesterday I did quite a lot of walking, and some swimming. I expect to see a lot of lakes and plenty of forest today.
(Posting title is from the poem Wild Turkey in the Rain by Ben Howard.)
Yesterday I wrote a posting titled Winter again and it is snowing, but the photographs didn't show that, as they were taken on Saturday, before the snowfall. But this time the photographs match the title - from yesterday - and to be consistently unconsistent I should find a title to match the posting from yesterday. Or maybe I should point to tomorrow, once again.
Anyway, these photographs were taken on Sunday at Nuuksio, where I went for a walk with two daughters. We got only a couple of cm of snow, but during our walk it was snowing heavily.
(Posting title is from the poem The Cave Painters by Eamon Grennan.)
On Sunday I went with my oldest daughter for a walk in the Nuuksio wilderness, going most of the way to Kattila, and returning via another route, past lake Iso-Holma. There were nice paths in the snow, making it quite easy to enjoy the sunny day, but very few people were still at Nuuksio at the time we were there, late evening. And of course the paths in the snow make it very hard to get seriously lost.
I had a look at the photographs a year ago, and in a posting titled "13 h" I wrote as follows: "We have had it warm, and snow is now disappearing fast. The official depth of snow figure at the Vantaa airport is 28 cm, but in many places there is almost no snow on the ground left."
It is quite different now, temperature goes to -10 °C at night, and rises to +1...+3 °C in daytime. We have 79 cm of snow on the ground, and it isn't melting away rapidly. It would be nice for the spring to proceed, and some rain would help a lot, but there is nothing like that in the weather forecast for the next five days.
(Posting title is from the poem The Star-splitter by Robert Frost.)
Here are more photographs from the Nuuksio wilderness area. We returned there on Sunday, again just before sunset, walking a bit different route this time, going around lake Haukkalampi. It was a day of blue skies and sunshine, and when the sun set it got cold, and there was fog on the lake.
It was a great time to be outdoors, and only a couple of other people were out walking. It is not always crowded at Nuuksio...
(Posting title is from the poem The Truly Great by Stephen Spender.)
On Saturday I went with my oldest daughter for a walk in the Nuuksio wilderness. Well, it isn't really wilderness, especially near the parking place and cottages at lake Haukkalampi, where we started from, but the scenery certainly is enjoyable.
We started about one hour before sunset, and returned to the car after sunset when it was getting dark. We walked a couple of the shorter routes, going along lake Haukkalampi, then to lake Mustalampi and returning via lake Valklampi.
There were only a couple of cars at the parking place then, quite a difference from the situation in summer with dozens of cars and several tourist buses.
(Posting title is from the poem Of the Last Verses in the Book by Edmund Waller.)
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