February Thoughts

Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.

- Kahlil Gibran

In Southern Finland February started with frost & thick snow blanket. The trees are covered with snow and look very decorative to me. Yesterday it was around minus 8 C and I enjoyed the sunshine and pure snow and took a few photos during my walk in the neighbourhood. The above tree is probably Aesculus hippocastanum and underneath Salix fragilis ’Bullata’.

The beginning of February is also the time of the traditional Runeberg pastries. They are sweet and rich in calories, but taste oh so good! On top there is an icing sugar round with rasperry jam and the pastry is flavoured with rum. The name comes after our national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877), whose birthday is celebrated the 5th of February. According to the history his wife Fredrica used to bake them and today every commercial bakery has their own secret recipe. HERE one recipe in English.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? 

And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 

go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

- Lewis Carrol

I pray this winter be gentle and kind—a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.

- John Geddes

There is an elementary school nearby and I photographed

these sweet girls on the empty street.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

Well, I love summer more than winter, there is no doubt about that!

Wishing you bright winter days.

❤︎❤︎❤︎

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