The photographs were taken on April 8th at Timmermalmi nature protection area.
This morning I walked for 2 1/4 hours in the north parts of Sipoonkorpi national park. There were some spring flowers, but because of cool weather the changes in the landscape are rather slow.
(Posting title is from the poem Crash Course in Semiotics by Lucia Perillo.)
The photographs were taken on February 20th in Luukki.
Today we got some rain, and the snow and ice is melting into slush. Riding the bicycle will be somewhat difficult if the slush freezes into ridges, but that remains to be seen.
(Posting title is from the poem Girl Riding a Horse in a Field of Sunflowers by David Allan Evans.)
This morning, when the children were at school, I went for a long walk in the Nuuksio National Park. I started from the Siikajärvi side, mainly because I don't like the Nuuksio center where there are often busloads of tourists milling about. Ecologically it is of course a good thing that few of these people venture far from the parking lot there, but still it spoils the wilderness feeling for me.
The day was perfect for walking, about +11 °C, and occasionally there was a thin cloud cover on the sky. For taking photographs I was out a bit too late, but still it was nice to be walking in the forests at Nuuksio.
It was mostly silent, but at lake Vähä Romlampi there was a racket going on. A bunch of frogs were making noise near the shore, quite a sound from relatively small frogs. At first I couldn't understand where the sound came from until I walked near the frogs and they got silent.
When I returned to the car, a black woodpecker was making noise on a utility pole, quite a daredevil.
Later today I went for a walk with the children at Pirttimäki, in the other side of Nuuksio, but that is another story.
(Posting title is from the poem The Frog by Hilaire Belloc.)
When going for a walk we heard quite a racket, and it didn't take long to find the reason: a black woodpecker was eagerly searching for food. And there were signs of her work visible elsewhere as well, for example in the second photograph.
I have been exploring motion blur quite a lot recently, and not only because the dimness makes sharp photographs hard to take these days. Here are some specimens - the last two are a bit different from the usual, having much more blur. I'm not sure whether I like the painterly effect, but this may be worth exploring as well.
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