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23 huhtikuuta 2022

Winter vs Summer


The good news is that this massive amount of snow is almost totally gone!
But lets compare some winter vs summer views of my garden.

We got a LOT of snow this winter. There were a few days of snow chaos in January and February. At the end of January the Valtteri storm with strong winds and heavy snowfall brought over 40 cm of new snow and a week later again we got 30 cm of new snow. There have been lesser snowfalls in March and even in April and the winter has seemed endless. I think these February photos give you the idea of the Finnish winter reality. 

The first photo shows the outdoor stairs that we don’t use at all in the winter. 
This beautiful pink Atragene Constance is growing along the roof ladders.
Don’t know why it did not drop its leaves.


I got this Pterocarya rhoifolia at a plant swap as a 40 cm high young plant.
It has grown beautifully and also started to bloom.



My garden Singer hosts different annuals each year combined with 
lime Lysimachia mummularia.


Along this small pergola structure there are growing
Parthenocissus and lime Humulus lupulus.


The same plants also decorate these garden arches.


I have a few towers like this constructed by myself.
Sad to say that this Clematis alpina has not lately been blooming this abundantly.


Around our terrace we have trellis and the Clematis Negritjanka 
is every summer just gorgeous.


Longing so badly for the spring, apple blossoms and lilacs.



 
Wishing a good & sunny weekend!

🍀🍀🍀
 
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15 tammikuuta 2021

Friday Bliss #122 - Snow Chaos & Winter Wonderland



On Tuesday and Wednesday we had a real snow chaos all over the country.
In the Helsinki region we got approximately 40-50 cm new snow. It was terrible,
the traffic in chaos and cars buried in snow. Me & hubby spent hours on the yard shoveling, 
three times a day. By yesterday the snowfall was fortunately over and we had 
blue sky and sunshine with -13 C. In short a stunning winter day!









Wishing a sunny weekend!

❤︎❤︎❤︎



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08 helmikuuta 2019

Winterglück - Winter Happiness?


Loretta and Wolfgang have this linkup called Winterglück - Winter Happiness.  Actually I don’t know whether these sights make me happy - probably not. We have so much snow and we are getting more every other day.... In southern Europe spring sprouts of crocus and snowdrops are in sight, but none here. Everything lies under over a half a meter of snow.







But inside the sight of colourful fresh tulips does make me happy!
❤︎


I’ll add my color collage from yesterday with spring photos...
❤︎

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Could it be possible for you not to use it?

This song is called White Winter Hymnal, but Pentatonix members are singing
 in a summer forest! They are an American a cappella group from Arlington, Texas.
I hope you enjoy!

25 tammikuuta 2019

Pakkanen, siitä suomalaiset tykkää!


FROST - WE FINNS LOVE IT! (sarcastic!)
Snow photos have very little color, so why not remove it totally....
Thick layers of soft new snow on branches
- in black & white for Black & White Weekend and Makrotex Challenge!





PAKKANEN = FROST - siitä suomalaiset tykkää - Finns love it!
The funny & sarcastic text says approximately:

Frost - we Finns love it! 
Noses are dripping, shirts are sweating,
car windows need scraping...
Yet:
Oh Frost - I wish you came soon!

Friday Bliss #20 - My Winter Week


The beginning of this week was extremely cold, yet so beautiful. On Tuesday there was a long time record - 33 C in Vihti, a community in southern Finland. Around my home the temperatures have stayed above & under -20 C, so I have stayed mainly indoors. Then it got warmer with heavy snow fall. Exactly a year ago I asked: Is it possible to get buried in the snow? Now my feelings and the views around my home are the same!

As a fun contrast I have watched the Australian Open & some serious sweating in the + 40 C of Melbourne. I don’t have any specific favourite but love the new young names: Frances Tiafoe, Nick Kyrgios, Denis Shapovalov & Stefanos Tsitsipas who got to the semi final. Of course I’m happy with the success of Henri Kontinen & John Peers who got to the final, as well as Lucas Pouille who is half Finnish, half French. But I bet that Nadal meets Djocovic in the Sunday’s final!





My reading this week has been The Three Evangelists of the French Fred Vargas. This is the first of the trilogy, and it seems that two are available in English. I so love the humour of Vargas. Her detective stories with the charming & odd inspector Adamsberg are so, so entertaining - and not too cruel!


January almost gone, the light increases day by day.
In the middle of the freezing northern winter it is a promise of the spring.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Victor Hugo


Take care, stay warm or cool depending on where you live!
- riitta


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14 tammikuuta 2019

Kuivaa - Dry



Pieni Lintu’s Makrotex Challenge asks to photograph something DRY.
I have dry withering tulip petals & some seedheads found in the middle of the snow.





Wishing a lovely winter week!
- riitta


09 tammikuuta 2019

Snow & Tulips


FINLAND TODAY:
Last night we got still more snow - a lot of shovelling - but it does one good.
My lilacs bear a lot of new snow - a view through the window.
My world outside does not offer any colors but the first tulips do ❤︎






Wishing you a happy Wednesday!
- riitta