Summer in the city

They are everywhere
tourists, families with baby buggies
Young people drinking
celebrating the end of school
Lying on the grass with bare feet
Summer turns to high any day now

Cloudbusting2-21, foggy weekend

The fog has landed in Finland and it will stay here whole weekend. People wander in a grey cloud on the streets in between the melting snow piles. I can almost hear the snow melting away exposing a heavy and wet carpet of gravel scattered all over the place during winter.

Today is the time to practise the use of fog lamps in the sea of road signs. For me it´s the time to put the paparazzi-tele-lens on and hope for the best.

Two bicyclists simultaneosly. The season has started, no doubt about it. Soon I should take my bike to get it fixed. I usually do small repairs on my own but now it needs the attention of a professional.

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I have been waiting

for a divine inspiration

like a sun coming out behind a dark forest

It´s not coming and I´m too fixed on my ways

like a bus on it´s route

endlessly going the same round every day

So I might as well do what I can do

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The fleet of thin red fiery dragons.

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The first sun I have seen in a long time
Strange
Marvellous
Unreal
Finally something to do
for the camera that I have been carrying with me all this time
Even the dirty dark grey car pollution snow looks brilliant
in the sun
in the sun

Winter lights

Every day morning lights.

Every year I´m asked to take a winter light photo in that rare moment when the trees and the sun meet in a beautiful way. That small lump of a branch in the front is not good but this will have to do.

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There is one totally harmless thing that drives me crazy. It´s the paper bag eaters. There are these greasy pastries or cakes that people buy and they put them in paper bags in the shop. Then these people come to bus and start rustling with the paper bags. They take the pastry out (HRRRRORR RRHHHHHHH KKKKRRR) and then they start to munch the pastry (KKKR RRRROOOHHHHH HHRRRR) and with every bite they keep on rustling the paper bag noisily. Eating is forbidden in a bus but that doesn´t stop them. They keep the paper bag on, so that there wouldn´t be so much clutter. I would usually eat these pastries with few bites but these people keep on munching the paper bag pastry longer than average. Dozens of bites really slowly with maximum rustle. (KKKRRRR HHHRRRR SSSRRR) Somehow they want all the other people to enjoy their paper bag pastries too. I´ve also had many co-workers at work who were paper bag eaters. At lunchtime they start the rustling and it climaxes when they make a ball out of the bag. (KKRRR HHHRRRR TTTTRRR) Longer it takes the better. Don´t even get me started on paper bag candy in a movie. People usually try to keep the eating noises down in public, but paper bag rustling is okay. I don´t know why.

Cloudbusting2-8, SKy Watch Friday

Fleeting moments

Days or even months apart

Then it hits me again

that the best things in life are free

See more skywatching right there.

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I missed the first 2 hailstorms of the winter today
I didn´t exactly miss them as I was out standing in the middle of them
for 5 minutes or so for both
I just didn´t have my camera with me and I was so disappointed
Better be prepared next time