Ice and Summer

I recently learnt how to put a watermark easily in my pictures, yahoo!

I am now spending my summer partly in Finland, then going to Spain after Midsummer Eve, and then, who knows - being spontaneous is more interesting than plans. I'll try to remember update pictures here a little more often (:

First two are the captures from my hike to the Urho Kekkonen's national park in northern Finland. There was so amazingly thin layer of ice still on a lake, and the sound of it melting and cracking to escape the summer was indescribably beautiful. Kind of rippling, jingling, rumbling and cracking at the same time. Magical.

The rest are from a lake Päijänne in central Finland from a tiny island that I went discovering with the camera. The forth pic is my favourite (:

Changes

I'm sorry for not having posted anything for a long time. It's because recently there have been many changes and things happening in my life, so I haven't had energy or time to post anything. Neither have I used my camera much, but today I took it for a walk in Rovaniemi, as you can see in pictures below (not the two first ones). I'll write about my life here later on, because not everyone in my real life know yet. On Friday I'll take a little vacations from everything and go hiking for a couple of days somewhere here in Lapland (:

Roadtrip to Norway

During our winter holiday, we took a few days' trip to northern Norway going Rovaniemi - Nordkapp - Tromsö - Rovaniemi. I was high on lack of sleep because that jungle theme event had been going on for the last two days, and for my calculations I slept more or less ten hours between friday and monday when we arrived to Tromsö. There we could finally see a great show of northern lights, and I could get some pictures too, but I still need a lot of practise with that area.

There are plenty of these pictures, but I'll try to show only my favourites in the next few posts (:
For starters, here we have some pictures from the road trip from Rovaniemi to Nordkapp:

  

First Snow

Oh my, how time flies when doing school work and packing backpacks, I just now got my last taken pictures ready for posting, but I don't have any time to write something more enlightening. That is, because we are heading to Helsinki tomorrow and I want to get some sleep before the 5 am wake up. An exciting thing is (if everything goes as planned) also going to occur on the way to the south, because we are after long considering going to buy a used car. I just hope everything goes well, and that by this time tomorrow we'll be in Helsinki and happy car owners.

Here are the pictures from the day before yesterday, the first time it snowed this autumn/winter. This morning the temperatures were 10 celsius below zero!

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