We trade words like special things

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The photographs were taken on February 9th in Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem luam/asa-luam by Aracelis Girmay.)

All the deleting and casting away

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The photographs were taken on February 8th.

(Posting title is from the poem Rage for Order by David Lunde.)

I gaze upon a hidden store

Ice

The photograph was taken in Luukki on April 13th.

(Posting title is from the poem 'One morn I left him in his bed' by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard.)

Break this heavy chain

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The photographs were taken at Meiko lake on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Earth's Answer by William Blake.)

More bright and large than this

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The photographs were taken at Meiko lake on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage by Katherine Philips.)

I found more joy in sorrow

Ice

The photograph was taken at Meiko lake on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem The Answer by Sara Teasdale.)

That bound my ancient gaze

Lake

The photograph was taken at Meiko lake on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Answer by Chinua Achebe.)

Inside this mechanized paradise

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The photograph was taken at Meiko lake on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem She steps into La Roue de la Fortune movie theater by Sandra Simonds.)

I read it in thy looks

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The photograph was taken at Meiko lake on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Astrophil and Stella 31: With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies by Sir Philip Sidney.)

To say no more of art than that it makes

Boats

The photograph was taken at Meiko on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem courthouse steps by D. A. Powell.)

It is a sweet sound

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The photographs were taken at Meiko lake on February 22nd.

(Posting title is from the poem Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace by Joy Harjo.)

The same the world over

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The photograph was taken on February 19th at Vantaakoski rapids.

(Posting title is from the poem Poem Beginning with a Quote from Keith Laumer's Galactic Odyssey and Ending with a Quote from Mika Waltari's The Egyptian by Albert Goldbarth.)

And I do not know the meaning

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The photographs were taken on February 19th at Vantaakoski rapids.

(Posting title is from the poem Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem by Gregory Corso.)

Blurred from too much experience

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The photographs were taken on February 19th at Vantaakoski rapids.

(Posting title is from the poem A drunk cadet had hit them by Susan Hampton.)

Immediately, they had linked

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The photographs were taken at lake Kaitalampi in Luukki on December 1st. The weather started getting colder then. Even though the ice was rather thin there were signs of people ice fishing on the lake.

(Posting title is from the poem The Extension of the Dead by Gary Fincke.)

To slip upon the sliding ice

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The photographs were taken at lake Myllyjärvi south of Luukki on November 24th.

(Posting title is from the poem Self Help by Bruce Covey.)

Hand moving and eyes eager in the sour light

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The photographs were taken in Nuuksio on March 10th.

This morning I walked for two hours in Petikko. During the night the temperature dropped to below 0 °C, so the snow was mostly frozen and carried a man walking in the open fields. Depth of snow is only 10-15 cm, and during the weekend probably melts almost totally away.

(Posting title is from the poem BETTER DAYS by A. F. Moritz.)

Every day I will give you a color

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The photographs were taken at lake Myllyjärvi south of Luukki on February 23rd.

(Posting title is from the poem Colors passing through us by Marge Piercy.)

With some regard to what is just and right

Dark

The photograph was taken on December 5th. The handheld exposure was 1 second, and there is some blur, but it is not bad.

It seems that cold and dry weather will continue until next weekend. That is fine, even though it would be nice to have a little bit of snow to make the landscape less dark.

(Posting title is from the poem Paradise Lost: Book 12 by John Milton.)

Before my face it lays down my despairs

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The photographs were taken on May 13th at Kytäjä-Usmi.

Today was a rainy day. In the morning I got soaking wet while commuting by bicycle. The clothes were still wet in the afternoon when I started riding back home. And I got soaking wet once again.

The Finnish government fell today, after the "Finns Party" elected an openly racist leader yesterday. Now the Finns Party is out of government, and negotiations about a new coalition have started. I hope human rights are remembered.

Yesterday, after the Finns Party election result was announced, I was quite shocked. As therapy I made a donation to the Disaster Relief Fund of the Finnish Red Cross. That helped a bit.

(Posting title is from the poem Idea 20: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still by Michael Drayton.)