Friday, January 24, 2014

Those days everything I thought trembled

It is not only snow and frost, it is also water.

(Posting title is from the poem Little Black Tangrams by Dara Wier.)

Thursday, January 23, 2014

To be worth the looking at

These photographs were taken on January 18th, during my walk to Kommelpott and back. A little bit of snow and frost are magic.

I heard today on the radio a news item about how much Finnish people are watching tv daily. Three hours per day was mentioned, which seems quite high, but maybe this was some particular subset of people. My average time per day for watching tv is two minutes.

(Posting title is from the poem Girl-Watching by Dan Brown.)

Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn

These photographs were taken on January 18th at lake Kommelpott, which I hadn't visited before. There were no marks of anyone else having walked there since the snowfall, and it was very quiet. I'm getting reasonable proficient in using the compass, walking here from Tränuhals without any paths to follow.

(Posting title is from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening by William Cowper.)