Between sense and recognition

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Leaf 2

Leaf 3

Leaf 4

We got 1 cm of new snow during the night, wet snow which is melting the old frozen snow, and the temperature is at +2 °C. The next five days will be rather warm, mostly above 0 °C, so snow will probably be melting away. There is about 25 cm of snow still left.

Today there might be time for a walk with the camera, and we might even get some sunshine. One day this week I would like to take a really long walk, but I don't feel quite up to it yet. If the snow would carry a person there would be lots of places to explore. Well, investing in snowshoes is one option, but I'm not quite convinced they would by suitable for my purposes. I have followed deer and moose tracks, which help walking in the deep snow, except that a moose takes really long steps, and you never know where those paths are leading, usually away from paths made by humans.

(Posting title is from the poem Language of Love by Rae Armantrout.)

Walking the forest I have seen

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Lake 3

Lake 4

Lake 5

On January 25th I walked around lake Vääräjärvi in Luukki. There was fresh snow painting the trees white.

Yesterday the weather started warming up, then it was -13 °C and now we have -2 °C. Some snowfall is in the weather forecast for the night, and for tomorrow +3 °C is promised.

Today I walked with my daughter around lake Hauklampi in Luukki, and it was quite slippery as the paths had frozen to ice.

(Posting title is from the poem Hawk by Wendy Videlock.)

Go for a hungry dream

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There have been rather wet days during this winter. These photographs were taken on January 19th.

I have been walking 1 1/2...2 hours each day in forests and swamps, but it may be that some kind of flu is coming up. Yesterday I wasn't quite in shape, and now I'm having worse symptoms. But at least no fever yet.

(Posting title is from the poem Old Bones by Gary Snyder.)