Colour Collage 12/2022

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Friday Bliss #183 - Longing for the Summer!

I have told you about our visit to Kustavi last summer. We stayed at the summer cottage of DH’s daughter Nana. The place is on the seaside and the views over the sea are very peaceful and beautiful. They have there the old cottage with sauna, a boathouse and a new cottage built two years ago. It is a cape with a lot of granite cliffs in sight - that I love.

At the summer cottages we Finns have mostly outdoor toilets called huussi!

Nana and Sami have a brand new one.

Unfortunately their brown Tibetan terrier Sisu died a couple weeks ago 

and the black Milo is now alone.

Me and DH did there some gardening jobs. Among other things made 

this small planting with Stachys bysantina and Physocarpus opulifolius ’Diablo’

and some low spireas - all seedlings from my garden.

On the shore there was a rotten salix where tens of Vanessa atalantas lived!

They looked stunning in the warm evening sun. Somehow I am not able to upload the video.

Last weekend we celebrated the 50th birthday of Nana and the 18th birthday of her son Anton.

Anton here in a black t-shirt. Essi hugged her aunt.

Looking longingly forward to the summer.

Thank you for the all lovely comments last week. Wishing you a bright & sunny winter weekend!

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Krapu w 11 - Lohtu, Consolation

LOHTU

Härkälinnun kaamea rääkynä herättää Linnean juhannuspäivään. Aamu valkenee idyllisenä järvenselän yllä. Aurinko lämmittää suloisesti kasvoja hänen istuessaan laiturilla ja vesi hyväilee ihanasti paljaita varpaita, mutta mieli on apea. Kaikkien mielestä Linnea on toivoton vanhapiika, onhan hän jo 27-vuotias. Ei Linnea miesten suhteen nirso ole, vapaita miehiä ei vaan heillä päin ole. 

Eilen Linnea oli ollut taas innokkaasti miestä metsästämässä. Pikkusiskon kanssa mentiin ensin lavatansseihin, mutta kaikki tanssittajat olivat tolkuttomassa humalassa. Sitten kerättiin niityltä tyynyn alle seitsemän erilaista kukkaa - vaan ei sulhoja unessa näkynyt. 

Nyt Linnea hiipii itkuisena keittiöön ja ryhtyy ahmimaan suruunsa suklaajäätelöä. Se maistuu aamuauringossa suloiselta kuin suudelma.

100 sanan krapuhaastetta vetää SusuPetal. 

Viikon 11 krapusanat itku, selkä, jäätelö.

Crab is a 100 word Finnish writing challenge. 

Week 11words to be included crying, back (open water), icecream. 

CONSOLATION

A red-necked grebe awakens Linnea to Midsummer's Day. The morning brightens idyllic over the open water of the lake. The sun warms sweetly her face as she sits on the dock and the water caresses the bare toes delightfully. Yet her mind is blue nevertheless. Linnea is considered by everyone to be a hopeless old maid, over 27 years old. She is not picky about men, but there are no free men around. 

Yesterday Linnea had been eagerly man hunting again. With her younger sister they went at first to dance, but all men were too drunk. Then seven different flowers were collected from the meadow under the pillow - but no bridegrooms were seen in the dream. 

Now Linnea creeps crying into the kitchen and begins to devour chocolate icecream in her grief. It tastes sweet in the morning sun - like a kiss.

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Sunny Yellow

The topic of Makrotex this week is YELLOW.

Here some tulips and forget-me-nots from last year - in the colours of Ukraine.

This tulip is ’Akebono’, high with a big flower.

Then I have this piece of kinetic art by an unknown artist.

I saw it at Ars Nova, Turku and it lookeed fabulous. It felt three dimensional depending on where 

I stood and as if parts of it were floating in the air. 

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