AUGUST was a sunny & hot month. Too little rain at our place. I watched athletics from Munich, tennis from the US, spent hours in the g...

In JULY  the heat wave was gone and I was happy about it. We got also rain and that was really needed. A friend and I had a lovely museum da...

  JUNE was a wonderful garden month, warm & sunny. The downside has been the need to water the garden every evening, but that too  is a ...

TIME FLIES and we are soon in June and that is great! I have been tidying the garden and cut off dead branches, but there is still a lot to...

Isn’t it great that we are already in May! And the spring starts finally to arrive also in Finland. Selma and Silva got sterilized and I hav...

March was not a nice month with all the devastating world news. Also the Finnish spring proceeds very slowly  and  there is still a lot of s...

February was mostly snow, snow and snow, but also bright and sunny days. It is great to see how united the EU, the US and the whole internat...

Weatherwise January offered very fluctuating weather - frost & plus grades,  cloudy days and sunshine, snowfall & rain. Till this la...

Selma and Silva arrived home on the 11th of December and have brought so much joy  to our quiet Christmas. We got our third vaccination in...

At last we can say goodbye to November and welcome December!  The month was not so bad and it practically flied. I participated in  How to s...

  Most interesting October posts would be: Louhisaari Manor Finnish Nightmares Old Turku & Mouseum But the most exciting happening to ...

September passed quicly. The weather was cool and rainy with ocassional sunny days. The most interesting posts would be: Anu Pentik’s instal...

August was mostly cool and rainy till the last week which I spent in Kustavi and Turku. I posted only 10 posts and shared you my experiences...

Weatherwise July was oh so beautiful, hot and sunny - but torturing dry.  I have practically photographed nothing in the garden, nor wanted ...

June has been a wonderful summer month with sun & warm weather. I have met children & grandchildren & friends - so lovely. Finla...

May has not offered the nicest weather, though in mid May we had a few wonderful & warm  summer days. I visited my son & hubby’s dau...

 April has offered all kinds of weather. There were some sunny days and pretty warm days and I went  eagerly outdoors to plant thujas and pr...

It has been a quiet month, mainly in expectation of spring. The snow is slowly melting and the first snowdrops are blooming. I truly welcome...

This February has been a tough month. The winter has been severe with snowfalls  & strong colds. Lately we have got some sand from  Saha...

I’ll remember this January of a real snow inferno - in two days we got 50 cm new snow. There was also a period of freezing weather, under mi...