I mean, outside the raw experiences of your life?

Malla

I'm jumping ahead to July 18th 19th, when we walked for 4 1/2 hours in Malla Strict Nature Reserve, all the way to Kitsiputous, which one of the highest waterfalls in Finland. It was hot, over +25 °C, and almost no wind at all. Big biting insects were interested in the hikers.

I don't usually do panoramas, and the technical merit of this one is far from flawless, but I feel that this photograph hints at the open vistas all around us when we were walking on the Malla fells. The fells you see near the horizon, behind Kilpisjärvi lake, are part of Sweden.

The panorama was stiched from 22 portrait-orientation photographs in PTGui. These days some cameras have software which allows stitching panorama photographs straight in the camera, which might be rather nice to use in situations like this one.

Next, I'll return to the scheduled program with the postings, using photographs taken in Norway on July 17th 18th.

(Posting title is from the poem Beautiful Poetry by Camille Guthrie.)

As if sliding down the green, scuffed face

Larvae 1

Larvae 2

There were plenty of these little green things at Kilpisjärvi, eating birches and other green stuff. Some years the Epirrita autumnata moth larvae have defoliated square kilometers of birch forests in the fells of Lapland.

(Posting title is from the poem Möbius by David Gewanter.)

How she cannot help abundance, even as it leaves

Malla 1

Malla 2

Malla 3

Malla 4

On July 17th we went for a walk in Malla Strict Nature Reserve at Kilpisjärvi. When we started walking, it was sunny, but rather soon dark and dense clouds appeared from southwest, and it started to rain, so we returned back earlier than planned. The photographs show lake Siilasjärvi and the Siilaskoski rapids.

(Posting title is from the poem The Lake by Sophie Cabot Black.)

To help on life in straight ways, broad enough

Sheep

Today we walked 4 1/2 hours in Malla Strict Nature Reserve at Kilpisjärvi. It was hot up on the fells, the temperature must have been 24 °C or even higher, and there was very little wind. We walked to Kitsiputous waterfalls - one of the highest in Finland - and returned the same way.

On the way back I met two people who asked if we have a map and where we are. They had forgotten their map at the hotel. I gave them the map I had with me, as I don't need it after today. I hope they find their way. On the other hand it is very hard to get lost in Malla Strict Nature Reserve, as there is only one trail, and you are not allowed to walk elsewhere.

(Posting title is from the poem Cleon by Robert Browning.)

For joy, spread round about us, meant for us

Gull

Yesterday I went for a walk twice, at noon to Malla Strict Nature Reserve, where rain caught us and we came back earlier than planned. In the evening we explored lake Tsahkaljärvi and the rapids in the river west of the lake. Nothing too strenuous after the climb to Saana fell on Wednesday...

There is rain in the forecast for today, and visiting Norway might be worthwhile.

The photograph was taken on July 3rd at Särkänniemi amusement park.

(Posting title is from the poem Cleon by Robert Browning.)

Reserved in part, to grace the after-time?

Fish

At noon I went with my daughter for a walk in Malla Strict Nature Reserve, where you can only walk on the marked trail. However, a shower of rain caught us, and we returned earlier than planned.

However, for late afternoon and evening the forecast promises that there won't be more rain at Kilpisjärvi. So some more walking might be in the program for today.

The photograph was taken on July 3rd at Särkänniemi amusement park. I finally found something to fit the color of my shoes.

(Posting title is from the poem Cleon by Robert Browning.)