I learned through painful iteration

Snow 1

Snow 2

Snow 3

The photographs were taken by lake Odilampi on December 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem Am I Special by Rebecca Wolff.)

Everyone seeing, I cannot

Snow 1

Snow 2

The photographs were taken at lake Odilampi on December 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem Were it but Me that gained the Height by Rebecca Hazelton.)

He led me through his gardens fair

Trees

The photograph was taken at Odilampi on December 25th.

Today we got rain and warm weather. The depth of snow went from 21 cm to 4 cm. I didn't commute by bicycle, using car and train instead. Tomorrow seems to be a good day for riding the bicycle, even though the roads may be quite muddy.

(Posting title is from the poem How sweet I roam'd from field to field by William Blake.)

Walks in a world of wilderness

Lake

The photograph was taken at Odilampi lake on December 25th.

We got 10 cm of wet snow today. I commuted by car and train, not by bicycle.

(Posting title is from the poem A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Poesy, Containing a Hundred and Ten Philosophical Flowers by Isabella Whitney.)

So long that it seemed yesterday

Odilampi 1

Odilampi 2

Odilampi 3

Odilampi 4

Odilampi 5

Odilampi 6

This morning I intended to go for a somewhat shorter walk. I started from lake Myllyjärvi near Pirttimäki, and walked north towards Luukki. There was still a little bit of fog swirling on the lake. The weather was dry and sunny, but when I started it was rather cold, +5 °C, and +9 °C when I returned. I didn't get any deer fly, probably because it was too cold for them.

When the children were small we used to visit lake Myllyjärvi quite often, walking around the lake. When I got my first digital camera, Canon Ixus 400, I took plenty of landscape photographs at lake Myllyjärvi, and that was one factor why I got interested in photography after a pause of several years.

There were quite a lot of things to explore north of lake Myllyjärvi, and thus the walk took 2 h 20 minutes, much longer than planned, but it was good. This week I have got over 11 hours of exercise so far.

The photographs were taken at Odilampi on August 22nd and 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem The Mill by Edwin Arlington Robinson.)