This is a repost of a post I made on April 8 2021. It's been a really warm and nice summer. The weather when I made the post was still freezing and the lake was mostly frozen over. This post combines photos

What a stunning day for a drive it was today! Autumn is particularly beautiful, with cold clear mornings easing into still and blue skied days. Today we caught up with a Landrover mate, Jeremy, who has

I made this post on June 29 2020. I wanted to revisit it and show it to you, too, to remind you all that summer will come. I went cycling through an area where the outer suburbs meet the countryside. Here's

This is a repost of a post I made on March 20 2019. The snow was melting rapidly. The cat enjoyed running around the yard, which she is not very fond of doing at present because of the large amount of

A photography post with shots of trains and railways.

A photography post about a steam train and the countryside made last summer

It's super hard to capture little fluffy fuzzy fluffballs on camera! They are always moving about, but what a miracle they are! Exactly 21 days after Grand Final Weekend in Australia, they tapped out of

I'd like to show you some long exposure shots I took in Tampere last winter when I visited it. These were taken on the eastern shore of Lake Pyhäjärvi just south of the city center of Tampere. The sun

A photography post of mine made on Jan 29 2019 about an afternoon when I went skiing.

This is a photography post I made on Oct 8 2019. I'm glad how nice these photos turned out. It seems that despite it being colder last year, deciduous trees looked very similar. This year, it has been

Since I couldn't do a proper photo shoot of the medieval castle in Hämeenlinna, I decided to share a post about the medieval festival at the castle I made a little over a year ago. Here's a link to the

I wanted to share this post of mine that I wrote on February 13 2020 after I attended a Go tournament in Helsinki with a fellow player from Lahti. It contains pictures taken at the new main library of

It's all very green and lush out there at this time of the year. Apples and berry bushes are full of harvest. I wanted to show you how grey it's going to look like in less than four months here. I took

I made this post on Dec 5 2019. That's when the wonderful old steam engine parked on a side track in our city was still intact and not vandalized by idiots who thought it would be a great idea to tarnish

Cat as a photo model

I made this post last June. If you're not that into the IKEA part, then you can scroll down just a bit to reach the Suomenlinnna fortress island part. I consider this post a potentially interesting

Here's a post I made about Chania, Crete, we visited last July. I don't believe we will be traveling abroad this year. But here's one of the seven posts I made about Crete. I've suffered from a very spotty

Today, the temperature is 19.4°F (-7 C) and there has been one snowfall and a second expected. Looking out into the garden, I see that not all of the plants have handled the cold the same way. For instance,