Hyvää huomenta, äiti! (Good morning, mother!)
We are leaving for Portugal tomorrow, and I´m rather exited! It´s nice to travel with friends. Of course this is already the second time for me to go to Lisbon, but maybe I can see some new things there.
Yesterday morning we went for a walk trought the village to see that everything is ready for the vinter to come.
Well, actually we were collecting some provisions to take it us..
And checking the little river Sahajoki that runs trough the village to see if we could see any frogs on their way to their hibernating places. We saw one small frog, but she was quite too shy to be photographed!
Then we came home and hid the maggots we collected into Hennas suitcase.
I went to see a demonstration, but these finns have their own way to demonstrate!
No shouting, no raised voices. Finns are so shy and silent people, that even when "demonstrating" they are standing in a polite, silent group and clapping their hands to the speakers.
"Capitalism is an illnes" says this plake.
Then we went for a nature trip, surprise surprise!
Here we are watching a small rapid in the river Siuntionjoki.
And a little watermill using its power.
We went to the seashore to watch over the sea. It was a rather cold day!
We were having some buns, and then we continued our trip.
We were driwing along smallest possible roads. Until we came to a place called Luutaharju in Häme region.
There was this "kota" for travellers to rest in.
And some information on the history of the place. There was a "hermit" living here in the forest in 19´th century, who built here a mill, but there is nothing left of that.
We walked along very nice paths trough a pine forest.
And crossed some streams.
And investigated some interesting stone heaps. This might have been the fireplace of the hermit.
And came to the shore of Luutasuo lake.
We were following these duckboards on the swamp hich surrounded the lake. The air was heavy of the wonderfull smell of "suopursu" (Rhododendron tomentosum).
Every now and then there was plakes telling about the animals and plants living there.
When it started to get dark we lit a fire on the shore and sat around it telling stories and watching the flames mirroring on the water.
The owls were shouting..
See you again soon, mum!
A warm hug from Zoe