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Luukki 1

Luukki 2

Luukki 3

Luukki 4

Luukki 5

The photographs were taken in Luukki on December 20th.

This morning I walked for two hours at Pirttimäki. At lake Sorlampi there were tracks across the lake so I took a shortcut. The ice is thick enough already, except in places where there is moving water.

I had some problems with the LX100 camera, due to batteries freezing and the lens not extending. I had to warm up the batteries inside a glove. It was -21 °C, and the wind made it feel colder.

(Posting title is from the poem Conversation by Ai.)

Is to look for sizeable flotsam

Lake 1

Lake 2

Lake 3

Lake 4

Lake 5

Lake 6

These photographs were taken in Luukki on November 28th. I returned to Luukki today. Lakes and swamps were flooding as there has been a lot of rain recently. I met some dogs and their companions.

The average highest daily temperature for this time of the year is 0 °C. Today we are having +10 °C. It may even be that there will be a new record for December. The previous all-time record for December is +11 °C, and we got that this year in the beginning of the month.

(Posting title is from the poem Ira Will Not Be Attending the Meeting by Jordan Davis.)

We say we're here to catch the water-witch

Birds 1

Birds 2

On May 29th I observed a pair of Gavia stellata at two neighboring lakes in Luukki, first at lake Käärlampi, where they were diving for food, and then at lake Hepolampi, where they were resting (and most probably nesting). When they flew away from lake Käärlampi, they cackled a bit like goose, and on lake Hepolampi they made wailing sounds. It was very wet, and rather cold, everything seemed to be still at lake Hepolampi.

I took some photographs with the Panasonic LX5, but as the lens is 90 mm equiv. at the tele end, there is not much to be seen in the photographs.

(Posting title is from the poem Loon Hunting by Kathleen Atkins.)