As breathing regularly and not falling down too often

House

Glass 1

Glass 2

Here is a diverse set of photographs taken at Vuokatti in Sotkamo. It is time to go forward, next I have photographs taken at Imatra waiting for posting.

After returning back home I have done quite a lot of walking, 1 1/2...2 hours per day, mostly in Luukki, but on Sunday also in Meiko, exploring some of the more remote areas when there are no established paths to follow. I didn't get lost even though I admit to being a bit unsure about my precise location a couple of times. But using a compass and a map regularly does help.

(Posting title is from the poem Superbly Situated by Robert Hershon.)

Of light dashing the gusty surfaces

Glass 1

Glass 2

Glass 3

It will take some time to go through the photographs taken during the six days of travel to Kainuu and back. As a sample, here are some abstract photographs taken on December 27th.

On new years eve I didn't go out to take photographs of fireworks. I was just too tired after traveling, and there were a lot of chores to do when we came back home.

I drove the car for 1520 kilometers, and the average speed was probably 75 km/h, which means that I spent twenty hours inside the car with the children. We didn't get to be angry birds with each other.

(Posting title is from the poem Mathematics Considered as a Vice by Anthony Hecht.)

An arrangement in a system to pointing

Camera

Glass

Birds

Cubes

Display

Art

Bats

Here is the fifth and last installment of photographs from our trip. These were taken at Iittala, where there is a glass museum and an art exhibition. We have visited Iittala almost every summer the last ten years or so, so it is quite familiar, but there are always new things to discover.

My oldest daughter liked the glass museum, taking a lot of photographs with her LX3. She likes to compose photographs so that the lines are not horizontal/vertical but at an angle, I'm not sure why. As a photographer she is getting to be rather good.

Today was the first time this week to ride the bicycle, for 33 km, along the river Vantaa, exploring also the smaller roads and paths there. It was a fine day, about 24 °C, a little bit of wind and some clouds.

After debating for some time whether to upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, I took today the plunge.

Before installing the new OS I checked the disk with Disk First Aid, made a fresh backup, tested it by restoring some since deleted files from November 2011, and only then started the installation program. It took almost an hour, but after the iMac booted into OS X 10.8, everything has worked fine. Some little things have changed, and there are plenty of new features; so far so good.

I had a little bit of problem remembering how Mission Control works, but after I resolved that issue (I needed to assign Chrome to a Space, which I hadn't done earlier), everything is the way I want.

(Posting title is from the poem A Carafe, that is a Blind Glass by Gertrude Stein.)