The photographs were taken on October 18th. The first two at Vaakkoi in the morning, and the last one at Tapiola in the afternoon.
This morning I got soaking wet when commuting by bicycle. It was dark, and the heavy rain made it difficult to see what was happening on the road. The length of day is now 7 h 22 min, and getting shorter fast.
(Posting title is from the poem Around the Fire by Ted Berrigan.)
This was a short but intense week. And there will be quite a lot of things happening during the weekend as well. Weather is once again getting colder, and we may even get some new snow. That would be fine.
The photograph was taken on January 2nd in Espoo Cultural Centre in Tapiola. There was an art exhibition, but at the internet pages of the center there is no description of who the artists were, so I can't tell more about this particular artwork.
(Posting title is from the poem To a Captive Owl by Henry Timrod.)
I'll be traveling on Thursday and Friday, so there will be a break in the postings here. Well, maybe I'll make a posting on Thursday morning.
I have been doing a lot of shopping with the daughters recently. Now that they are getting older I'm starting to understand how serious the matter of shopping for clothes is. Also, while spending time in the shops I have been wondering at the prices, for example how much a little black dress can cost. But the salespeople have been very understanding. I think some of them think that they might get repeat customers of us, and they may well be right.
These photographs were taken in Tapiola in Espoo on May 3rd. The green color of the fence is really rather remarkable, but maybe not quite as remarkable as shown here.
I have started using program (P) mode on the LX5 instead of aperture priority, and this meant that I had to re-generate my settings. Everything seemed to be ok, but then in some cases the colors of in the photographs differed from what I expected them to be. At first I thought there is something wrong with the color balance, but finally I realized that I was using the wrong film mode. Now I should have the right set of settings once again in the LX5.
(Posting title is from the poem Idem 1 by Michael Palmer.)
Today I visited Tapiola, which is a suburb in Espoo, Finland. It used to be (and maybe still is) that tourists are transported in buses around Tapiola to have a look at the architecture of "the garden city". I lived some years in the area and didn't feel it was anything special, but who am I to tell. In any case, some parts of the suburb are actually not so bad. Here is a photograph from Tapiola showing a place very familiar to the residents and visitors.
Later today we went for a walk around the nearby lake Lammaslampi, where the ice still remains but is getting weak. Today was a bright day, lots of light, and the spring progressed nicely.
Tomorrow it may be that we travel up north a bit. However, it has happened that someone in the family has gotten sick at the last minute, so I'm not quite sure of this yet. But there may be a pause in my blogging here. Or not, this remains to be seen.
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