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The photograph was taken on January 16th in Helsinki.

(Posting title is from the poem The Poet Orders His Tomb by Edgar Bowers.)

And now we are the city

Water

Ice

Ducks

Reeds

Linnanmäki

Here are more photographs I took yesterday in the center of Helsinki, walking there with my daughter. There were a couple of spots where the sea ice had melted away at Töölö Bay, and dozens or maybe hundreds of ducks were there. Quite a racket. And later when we walked accross the railway station it felt the same, dozens of people packed close together, waiting for trains. I'm not really a city person.

(Posting title is from City Elegies by Robert Pinsky.)