Yellow Mix

Yellow spring bloomers are still dormant, so a few photos from my archives.

I plant tete-a-tete daffodils every spring to a couple of containers.

The daffodils planted at Easter are still in tight bud, because it has been so cold.

Looking forward to the burst of color!

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Early April Thoughts

It is not yet warm, only 7C but the sun is shining. There are still some snow piles left, 

but I have been raking in the garden and cut some broken branches cracked by the heavy 

snow burden. Not much raking left, because I was working hard in the autumn. 

Callunas were replaced with tete-a-tete daffodils, they’ll bloom for a long time outdoors.

I noticed that crocuses will bloom in a few days. So far blooming

only a few snowdrops and my purple Helleborus that is in poor condition.

I told you in some post that there is a construction going on opposite our house.

A small woods was cut down and now they are on the groundwork.

When looking at the sandy and rocky moraine, I am surprised that we have a green garden!

Of course we have transported lots and lots of good soil to the property, but still.

Anyway, I am so happy that the spring is finally arriving in Finland too

and being outdoors in the garden is a real pleasure!

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Mignon eggs & Covid-19 vaccination

The good news of the week is that me and my husband got our first Covid vaccine! 

The used vaccine was BioNTechPfizer's Comirnaty. So far no side effects.

The vaccination took place in an empty elementary school situated in the same building as

Sanomala, Finland's largest newspaper printing house. It prints the newspaper 

Helsingin Sanomat (the widest distribution in Finland) and the tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, 

among others. The building is huge. 

 

Everything was organized perfectly:

while sitting the demanded 15 minutes was relaxed with no crowd.

To reward ourselves we bought a four-pack of Fazer's Mignon eggs. A few words of them.

Mignon eggs are genuine egg shells filled with chocolate.

The founder of the company Karl Fazer began making this classic of the Finnish Easter tradition 

in his factory as early as 1896. The handmade Mignon still tastes almost the same 

as it was when it was born. 

This year 1.8 million Mignon eggs will be produced!

For Jutta’s Digitalart Dienstag an edit of the above photo.

Would it not be nice to have a magic wand and multiple these treats in a second!

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Happy Finnish Spring?

World Happiness Report has announced that Finland was again - for the 4th consecutive year - 

the happiest country in the world. The ten happiest countries are: Finland 🇫🇮 Denmark 🇩🇰 

Switzerland 🇨🇭Iceland 🇮🇸 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Norway 🇳🇴 Sweden 🇸🇪 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 

New Zealand 🇳🇿 Austria 🇦🇹. I agree, Finland is a good and peaceful country, but our climate 

could indeed be better. At the moment it is snowing wet snow. 

On Thursday I visited the charming gift shop Koiramäen pajutalli and this is how it looked: 

Still a lot of snow, but clear sky and sun and very sharp shadows. 

This used to be a normal farm house with stalls and sheds painted in red, which is typical Finnish. 

It is a lovely place to visit any time of the year and I always admire their huge trees.

Easter decorations were displayed in the white main building. Due to the pandemic 

me and my husband were the only clients. So sad.

As we were the only customers, we could admire in peace their lovely Easter items.

A great assortment to every taste. I found these royal chickens so cute!

Wishing Happy Weekend!

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Colors of the Sri Lankan Flag

The flag theme continues. I searched for the colors of the exotic Sri Lankan flag in my archives.

These are all from The Winter Garden of Helsinki / Helsingin kaupungin talvipuutarha.

I love to visit the conservatory. Click to my post from August 2019. Here a post from February 2018.

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Day of Kalevala & the Finnish Culture

Today we celebrate Kalevala and the Finnish Culture. The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of 

epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology.

I have shared before these photos of the Finnish National Museum, but in honor of Kalevala once more.

It is an impresive building opened in 1916 and designed by the architects

Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen.

The museum's entrance hall ceiling has ceiling frescoes in Kalevala theme, painted by 

Akseli Gallén-Kallela. The frescoes, painted in 1928, are based on the frescoes painted by him 

in the Finnish Pavilion of the Paris World Fair in 1900.

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Flower Power

In the same building as my local supermarket there is also a florist shop 

called Kukkanen / Small Flower / Florecita.

I love to admire their flowers and bouquets. This is what I saw this week.

I nearly bought this special Streptocarpus, it was so beautiful.

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