The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose

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(Posting title is from the poem Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman.)

And then continued to explain how

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The photograph was taken at Särkänniemi amusement park on July 24th.

(Posting title is from the poem Open by Mark Irwin.)

My life is the gardener of my body

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The photographs were taken at Särkänniemi amusement park on July 24th.

(Posting title is from the poem I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai.)

Makers of houses, books, clothes

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The photographs were taken at Tampere on July 24th.

(Posting title is from the poem Open by Jean Valentine.)

I waited with rain on my eyelashes

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on October 28th.

Today I commuted by car and train. I got one hour of walking.

(Posting title is from the poem Water Wheel by Gary Soto.)

In dream-riddled, guarded tones

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on October 28th.

It is snowing, once again. Depth of snow is 1 cm, and it may be that the snow melts away today.

(Posting title is from the poem Wheel by Michael Palmer.)

I close a door, another door

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on October 28th.

This morning I walked for 1 1/2 hours, and the rubber boots were useful as the paths were muddy and the swamps and ditches were flooding.

Donald Trump is seeping deeper and deeper into the mire. "The president is incorrect" applies to everything he does, not only the lies but also the mistakes and the stupidities, not to speak of the money-grabbing.

(Posting title is from the poem Grayed In by Martha Collins.)

I felt the eyes of every

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on October 28th.

The snow from yesterday melted away during the night. It rained in the morning, and I got wet when riding the bicycle. In the afternoon the temperature rose to 7 °C, and it was still wet even though the rain stopped.

(Posting title is from the poem D.O.A. by Tim Dlugos.)

See and if I only could

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The photographs were taken on September 10th while I visited Hatanpää Arboretum in Tampere.

I have taken quite a lot of photographs this weekend as well. Autumn colors are prominent, and there is a lot of variety in the landscape. And lots of details to explore with a camera.

(Posting title is from the song Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush.)

None of us will ever take the transiberian train

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On September 10th I visited Hatanpää Arboretum in Tampere.

(Posting title is from the poem Cordelia, or ‘A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be’ by Veronica Forrest-Thomson.)

War's a horrid thing, now look

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The photographs were taken at Tampere on September 10th.

Today was once again a rainy day, but I didn't get wet while commuting by bicycle. There are a lot of wet fallen leaves on the road, making it slippery when braking. The commute takes now 50 minutes, but in the summer it took only 40 minutes when the conditions were optimal.

(Posting title is from the poem Once you clear the bodies by Luke Wright.)

The storm in your bright eyes

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The photographs were taken at Tampere on September 10th.

It rained also today, but in the morning there was a break in the rain when I commuted by bicycle, and in the afternoon even the sun appeared. I need to do some repairs to the bicycle quite soon, but it should last two weeks, until I have some vacation days.

(Posting title is from the song City Lights by Blanche.)

And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on September 9th.

Today I was somewhat lazy and commuted by car and train. It rained over 20 mm during the day, and the temperature was 8 °C, with plenty of wind. For tomorrow the weather forecast promises more rain, but not quite as much as we got today.

The posting title refers to Trump and his minions, of course.

(Posting title is from the poem The General by Siegfried Sassoon.)

Continues to paint

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on September 9th.

It starts to be the time of the year when the number of people commuting by bicycle starts to decrease. On the other hand, some people have already installed studded winter tires to the bicycle, and are thus prepared for the slippery roads.

(Posting title is from the poem Willem DeKooning Declared Incompetent by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan.)

I am, finally, an incompetent, after all

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on September 9th. The two women in canoes were discussing how great it is to see all the shades of grey on the rainy lake. (I couldn't avoid hearing their voices.)

There is not much to say about Trump and the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. His incompetence and laziness is remarkable, the biggest in the world. But in Puerto Rico people have no electricity or drinking water, roads are blocked and help is coming too late. Not to forget such details as the fact that Trump owes 33 million USD to Puerto Rico after his golf club there went bankrupt.

(Posting title is from the poem From the Sustaining Air by Larry Eigner.)

Let your head go, just let go

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on September 9th.

This morning while walking I thought about the catastrophe of Trump and his minions. Trump's inferiority complex is vast and deep (maybe a world record), and everything he does is compensation for it. In fact there is a book discussing this topic (among others), A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of President Trump by Steven Buser et al. One could argue that the inferiority complex is the biggest danger we are facing right now in the world.

(Posting title is from the poem No Other Way by Sinéad Harnett.)

But straight I saw motions of lightning grace

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The photographs were taken at Niihama outdoor area in Tampere on September 9th. It was a rainy day, and few people were out walking. This was the first time to visit Niihama, but probably not the last.

So far this year I have got 5,005 km riding the bicycle.

(Posting title is from the poem Astrophil and Stella 20: Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly by Sir Philip Sidney.)

Out of its own shadowy substance

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The photographs were taken at Särkänniemi amusement park on August 4th.

I don't know why I can't stop following what happens with Trump. People are crazier than I thought could be possible.

(Posting title is from the poem City in Mist by Florence Edsall.)