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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Not how cleanly one can divide

The photographs were taken at Turku Castle on January 2nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Before the Mirror on New Year’s Eve by Philip Metres.)

Sunday, December 1, 2019

North to the facility

The photographs were taken at Hämeenlinna castle on October 19th.

(Posting title is from the poem Goggles and Helmet by Donald Hall.)

Friday, September 6, 2019

The point of migration is the return

The photograph was taken in Kajaani on July 13th.

(Posting title is from the poem How to Move Away by Lynn Pedersen.)

Thursday, November 3, 2016

A light to countervail, no longer

The photographs were taken on October 8th at Häme Castle in Hämeenlinna, visiting the "Heavy Metal" exhibition. Originally from Graz Austria, the exhibition featured a large collection of arms and armours from the 16th to 18th century.

I commuted by bicycle today, and it took about one hour to ride to work, and the same time back home. Part of the way the snow was melting or had melted, probably due to salt spread on the road. Otherwise the road was covered by ice, very slippery and bumpy. The Schwalbe Marathon Winter tires were quite good. I'm getting to know how they behave on snow and ice. It is good to have 240 studs, but even with these tires there was some sliding on ice.

(Posting title is from the poem Makin' It Great Again by Andrew St. James.)

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

A pity, how we misspeak and mishear

These photographs were taken at Häme Castle in Hämeenlinna on May 4th. We attended a guided tour of the castle, and the children seemed to enjoy it.

Today I thought about misunderstandings. One should not take understanding granted.

(Posting title is from the poem The Poem of the Little House at the Corner of Misapprehension and Marvel by Albert Goldbarth.)

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Who filled the moat

Gull 1

Gull 2

Fence

Moat

Duck

Here are some views of the museum area at Häme Castle in Hämeenlinna. The photographs were taken on May 4th.

I have got 10 hours of exercise this week, half of it riding bicycle, and the rest walking and various other activities. Nowadays I'm getting 2-3 times the amount of exercise I got three years ago, and it is good.

I have recognized only recently one benefit of walking in forests and swamps, and that is improved balance. It used to be so that when in an old forest there was a dense thicket of fallen trees across the way, I got an "Oh no!" reaction. Nowadays I usually get on "Oh yes!" reaction.

In fact, the so-called obstacle course is meant to be training for this kind of situations, and I'm getting the real thing when walking in forests and swamps. In addition to fallen trees some of the landscape is rugged so that one needs to climb across boulders, and up and down rocky hillsides.

But that doesn't change the fact that while my balance and coordination has improved, I'm still far from excellent in these skills. So, you won't see me doing parkour or engaging in rock climbing. However, even though balance and coordination is something that generally won't be improving when one gets older, I'm better than I used to be, which is fine.

(Posting title is from the poem A Song for Myself by Melvin B. Tolson.)

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Packed like a box with the toys of childhood

Kajaani

River

Wall

Rock

Flowers

Here is the second installment of photographs from the trip with the children. These photographs are from Kajaani, where we spent some time walking around, including a bit of play at the old castle at the river.

In addition to the Canon mirrorless camera announcement, of which I may write a bit also, a thing which I didn't have time to ponder about during travel (or even know about) was that Apple released a new OS version, Mountain Lion, a.k.a Mac OS X 10.8.

Yesterday I had a look at the multitude or reviews and upgrade instructions, and Mac OS X 10.8 looks good. But I need to confirm that I have a working backup, and I need to make a bootable installation disk just in case something goes wrong, so I'm not upgrading to Mountain Lion right away. The price of 16 euro is certainly modest enough for a new OS.

In any case, the Apple approach of gradually evolving iOS and Mac OS X together seems to be a good thing, although I'm not completely convinced about cloud integration. But having the same basic info (contacts etc.) on different devices is certainly a good starting point.

(Posting title is from the poem History by Babette Deutsch.)