The sunlight was not our concern

Fog 1

Fog 2

Fog 3

Fog 4

The photographs were taken at Vaakkoi on October 19th.

The weather is warming up. In the morning we had -8 °C, for the afternoon the forecast promises -2 °C. I went for a walk and took photographs of the snowy landscape.

For the next week the forecast promises even warmer weather, up to +5 °C, and some rain. It won't be especially pleasant for commuting by bicycle, but I'll try anyway. So far this year I have got 5793 km riding the bicycle.

(Posting title is from the poem Notes from the Castle by Howard Moss.)

I see at last that all the knowledge

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

The photographs were taken in Vaakkoi on May 15th.

Today is the last day of school. In the afternoon I'll drive the car for 400 km.

(Posting title is from the poem 90 North by Randall Jarrell.)

And my fingers close on it, caressing

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

The photographs were taken on March 29th at Vaakkoi.

(Posting title is from the poem The Blue Scarf by Amy Lowell.)

Through the land's scratch and scrabble

Snow 1

Snow 2

Snow 3

Snow 4

Snow 5

The photographs were taken in the north parts of Vaakkoi on March 19th.

This morning I walked for 2 1/2 hours, exploring the Soidinsuo swamp in Nuuksio. The parking place at Siikaranta was empty when I arrived, but when I left it was almost full. The marked trail was icy and slippery, so it was better to walk elsewhere. I forgot my map and compass at home, but still I found the way surprisingly well, even though it has been some time since I last visited Soidinsuo.

I visited seven lakes along the way: Porolampi, Kolperinlampi, Pitkä Saarijärvi, Ympyrkäinenlampi, Holma-Saarijärvi, Kukkoilampi and Kolmoislammit. I got a bit lost when going northeast from lake Kolperinlampi, but I found a new route, ending at lake Pitkä Saarijärvi. Ice covers the lakes, but it is rather weak ice, and there start to appear holes in the ice cover. Lots of birds made themselves heard.

(Posting title is from the poem The Blue by Camille T. Dungy.)

Was too much for my primitive

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

The photographs were taken on December 12th at Vaakkoi.

This morning I visited Oittaa once again. It is a nice place for taking a walk, except for the noise that comes from the big roads to the south and to the east. Of course, when one walks for some distance towards Nuuksio the noise goes down. I took yet another route, and found new things to explore later.

Last night we had -10 °C, in the morning -4 °C, and now 0 °C. I was getting used to the cold, and now I must adapt to warmer weather. In three days I have got seven hours of exercise.

(Posting title is from the poem graduate school first semester: so here I am writing about Indians again by Cheryl Savageau.)

Those ideas cause other sensations

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

I was rather busy while traveling to Tampere during the weekend. There are almost 2000 photographs waiting for processing.

I got a bit carried away Sunday morning when there was a dense fog cover in Tampere city center. I took photographs for an hour until the fog started to disappear, walking along the river, across the river, and near the river. I wasn't the only one taking photographs, but it was surprisingly quiet early in the morning.

The photographs shown here were taken at lake Iso Lehmälampi in Vaakkoi on July 31st, in the company of a young Gavia stellata.

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

What it does not know it looks for

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

Lake 5

Lake 6

Lake 7

Lake 8

Today I walked for 2 1/2 hours in Luukki. It was clouded, and I got lost, thinking that I was walking towards north when I was in fact going south. That felt good. When I returned to the parking place, I noticed a man carrying two 10 liter buckets full of blueberries. The first berries start to be ready for picking, but most are still unripe.

The photographs were taken in Vaakkoi on July 2nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Dominion Over the Larger Animal by Sophie Cabot Black.)

And desire an electric shade of blue

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

Lake 5

Lake 6

There is no end to being busy at work, but that is quite all right. In fact, for some reason I woke up smiling this morning, thinking about work.

I commuted by bicycle, and it was good.

(Posting title is from the poem Idem 1 by Michael Palmer.)

No bird, but an invisible thing

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

Lake 5

During the last five days I have walked for over 12 hours in various parts of Nuuksio National Park. The spring is advancing rapidly, and every day there is something new to see and hear. It is now cuckoo season.

The photographs were taken on May 3rd in Vaakkoi.

(Posting title is from the poem To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth.)

Only a cycle that completes itself

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

February 18th was a sunny day, and I went for a walk in Vaakkoi, taking photographs.

I'm commuting by bicycle daily. And the weather is good for this, dry and sunny. But the temperature change is quite big: today we had -4 °C in the morning and +7 °C in the afternoon.

(Posting title is from the poem Tormented by Pura López-Colomé, translated by Forrest Gander.)

The curtains part: it is a summer’s day

Lake 1

Lake 2

Today was once again a wet day, but for commuting by bicycle the weather was suitably cool. The weather forecast promises +24 °C for tomorrow, and the next day it is even warmer.

I have been excessively busy yesterday and today, and tomorrow is no exception.

These photographs were taken at Vaakkoi at lake Iso Lehmälampi.

(Posting title is from the poem The Fight in the Meadow by Russell Edson.)

A pearl garland winds her head

Boat

Reflect

Waterlily 1

Waterlily 2

Boat

Here are more photographs from Vaakkoi, taken at lake Iso Lehmälampi ("Big Cow Lake"), except for the last which was taken at lake Vaakkoi.

(Posting title is from the poem The Lady of Shalott by Lord Tennyson.)