Thou art more lovely and more temperate

Blueberry 2

Blueberry 1

Blueberry 3

Blueberry 4

I commuted by bicycle today, and the total distance for May is now 259 km. It took 40 minutes to get to work, and 48 minutes to get back home, despite having headwind in the morning and tailwind in the afternoon. I guess one is more tired after work.

Here are photographs taken last week on a hill nearby home. It was late in the evening and the sun was low on the horizon. Blueberry flowers are fascinating, or how do you feel?

A camera store here in Finland is selling older Olympus micro 4/3 cameras on discount this week, for example Olympus Pen E-PM1 + 14-42 II R Kit sells for 199 euro. But still, after thinking about this for a while I feel that I have grown into using the Panasonic LX3/LX5 family of cameras, and nothing really compares.

(Posting title is from Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? by William Shakespeare.)

I am too certain of the measure of these days

Wood anemone

Saaren-Musta 1

Saaren-Musta 2

Here are some more photographs from last weekend. I haven't had time to process any of the newer photographs. Spring has advanced quite a lot within this week.

Yesterday I went with the two older daughters to Nuuksio, to the north part, east of lake Saarijärvi. There is a parking place at Yli-Takkula, and from there one can walk via paths to the south shore of Saarijärvi.

Near the south corner of Saarijärvi are two places listed as worth seeing in the Espoo guide to nature. (In Finnish, "Saarijärven silokallio" and "Espoon korkein kohta".)

We visited both places. The smooth rock at the lake shore was nothing really remarkable, and the highest point of Nuuksio wilderness area wasn't that remarkable either at 114,5 meters above sea level. By the way, the height is usually given as 114,2 meters, but there has been new measurement since 1.12.2012, and the height is now 30 cm higher than it used to be.

(Posting title is from the poem The Measure by Jay Wright.)

That I might know the knowing

Pine

Saaren-Musta

Reflect

Birch

Flowers

Ant

Ditch

I'm still posting photographs from last weekend. Sunday evening I went with the two older daughters for a walk in the forests at Vaakkoi, visiting three lakes there: Vaakkoi, Saaren-Musta and Väärä-Musta. The ground is no longer as wet as it was, so it was possible to use sneakers for walking instead of rubber boots.

(Posting title is from the poem Of What is Real by Richard Tagett.)