Hello again, dear and ardent followers!
It is your favorite crustacean here again!
We have arrived to the wonderful midsummer, although it seems the Finnish nature imagines it is autumn already. Everything is oddly ahead of time.
Look the glorious lupines on the old pasture next to our cottage!
But what comes to the nature having lost its marbles.. well, usually for example the blueberries ripen here in Southern Finland in the end on July, but this year that happened in the end of June. The leaves on the trees start normally to turn yellow in August, and itīs happening already! Some species of birds, who normally start to get ready for their annual migration in August, are behaving like that now over the fields, and even the spiders, who on normal years start to tuck into our little cottage in September to hibernate there, have started to roam in!
(If you have very good eyesight you can see the spiders roaming towards the cottage here. )
We all wonder if it does mean something. An old man in the neighbour said it means that the coming winter is going to be very cold and harsh, but on the other hand he has also told us that if there is lots of berries in the rowans and if the frogs jump high in July the next winter is going to be cold and harsh.
So we donīt know what to think.
Of course it has its bright side too - we have already started feasting with forest berries - blueberries and the small, wild forest strawberries!
Here we are heading into the forest (I mean, deeper into the forest - we live on the brink of it!) to pick and eat berries.
We donīt eat much anything else these days- and it is a bit so and so with the picking too - but we eat a lot!
Nam nam nom nom mums mums slurp!
Arenīt you starting to drool just watching this photo?
Our host Henna is picking berries into a big bucket and putting them into freezer in small plastic bags, to be eaten throughout the winter, and that is of course very smart, since sheīll have hungry toyvoyagers round her throughout the year, but we toyvoyagers pick a small bucketful each per day, and on the next morning there is nothing left - we got hungry during the night too!
Here we are ready to head back home with our full buckets and full stomachs!
In the long, luminous summer evenings weīve gone for long walks onto the beautiful forests or meadows near by.
Try to guess what is the time in this photo! Huh?
It was taken at 23. 51! The sun doesnīt set very low on these latitudes.
This time we were walking on a seashore meadow, where there are young bulls eating fresh hey.
Sometimes they go crazy and run like hell after each other.
These boardwalks continue some kilometers on the wetlands, and our host Henna told us that when she went to high school, this was her route to school.
Now we must hurry to pick more berries!
I wish you were here with us!
Kiss from Crawfish!