Friday Bliss #64 - Christmas is Sneaking

Christmas is already all over. Last week I visited two garden centers and Koiramäen pajutalli
that is a charming present shop located in an old environment.
The northern part of Finland got new snow, here the ground is still bare.
The positive side is that it is not slippery when doing my daily Nordic Walkings.

This puff plum pastry is very typical pastry during Christmas time in Finland.

They are usually star-shaped and we call them JOULUTORTTU, delicious with coffee or even glögg.

At Koiramäen pajutalli’s stall there were even two Christmas pigs snoaring!

The smell was not nice, I can tell you :)) But kids love them.

This big amaryllis pot looked fabulous at a garden center. Maybe it is at its best

at this stage. I am not sure if the flowers have enough space to open.

My white Christmas cactus is ridiculously small :))

This was a nostalgic photography book showing how Finland was in the 1950s.
A tip for the Finnish Santas!

A bunch of book bloggers were invited to YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Yle has a poetry award called Dancing Bear and we were the ones who read  the nominees
and blogged about them. I am in the back row, in the middle.

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My November in Collage

November was a more quiet month for me. A bit of flu and fatigue. I posted about 

Viapori Kekri Feast and a lot of miscellaneous stuff.

I have walked almost every day and made some serious cleaning for Christmas.

Home is now ready for Christmas and so am I!

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Digital Art Dienstag

First Advent is next weekend, so a bit Christmas, too.

 My original - a leaf of Zamioculcas

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Rain Clouds and Sun Rays - Järvenpää Art Museum

Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Towers of Clouds 1904

Rain Clouds and Sun Rays - Artists' Skies was an exhibition curated by Finnish meteorologist Seija Paasonen. I visited this exhibition in September at Järvenpää Art Museum.   The works were mainly from the Golden Era of Finnish painting in the late 1800s and early 1900s including among others Albert Edelfelt, Fanny Churberg, Pekka Halonen, Eero Järnefelt and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt. Unfortunately the paintings lose their enchantment due to the yellowing lights of the space.

This exhibition was wonderful. The paintings were grouped on the basis of the weather phenomenon or season: summer, winter, sunset, storm etc. The space had low ceilings and the lighting highlighted beautifully the golden frames. I loved the poetry lines on the wall.

Fanny Churberg

Viggo Pedersen

Markus Collin

Hanna Rönnberg

Aukusti Uotila

"The skies in the paintings are frozen in time, but they can be brought to life to reveal past and future weather. Many paintings – whether they show the sky or not – give some kind of signal or sensation about the weather. A grey curtain of clouds on the horizon creates the sense of impending rain. The cold air of a clear winter morning pinches your cheeks. Bending treetops evoke the sound of the hum of the wind. The scent of mouldering plants hangs in the air in a foggy autumn landscape. When waves hit the rocks on the seashore, you can taste the salt in the seawater." - Museum’s site

Albert Edelfelt

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

"Weather in all its many and greatly varying forms, surrounds us everywhere, all over the world. The world of paintings also depicts weather, fascinating skies and clouds. Some of the painted skies follow the laws of meteorology, while others are imaginary or intended for something completely different than meteorological study. Despite this, they can be studied with original ideas, and the clouds can even be named according to the International Cloud Atlas.” - Museum’s site

Aukusti Uotila

One of my favorites was this compact lake landscape by Eero Järnefelt.

HERE & HERE for more great photos!

Photo: Yle

Singing in The Rain - Gene Kelly

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