tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44358915461207377092024-03-13T15:00:39.758+02:00Motoristin Mutsi at home and gardenIn the house of Million Weeds mother of the Motorist is at home and garden. Living daily life without Supermoto - or at least almost. There is life out of racetrack, isn't there? Like home decor, gardening, enjoying little random things. Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.comBlogger348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-49346289734927833812020-03-18T15:10:00.000+02:002020-03-18T15:10:17.700+02:00Time to move on...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My life has changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Almost a year ago I quit my job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And there is only hubby and I living in our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I don't feel like this person, who wrote this blog, anymore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I won't be closing this, neither I won't close <a href="https://motoristinmutsi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Motoristin Mutsi</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I will go on writing my diary in <a href="https://motoristinmutsiretooled.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Motoristin Mutsi - retooled.</a></span></div>
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<br />Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-7422680592538536982019-07-19T20:46:00.003+03:002019-07-19T20:46:45.657+03:00No secret<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is not a secret,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that I am in love with sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And am just a little delighted on rocks.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-16290382100187005182019-07-17T10:52:00.000+03:002019-07-17T10:52:32.461+03:00Something small<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful mini zoo with different kind of animals </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- which you was allowed to touch and feed, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and staff was so friendly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me it seemed, that all the animals had very nice habitat, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Came so close I had to remind him (her?),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when one of the staff member cleaned seeds from ground.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-69879067590820794902019-02-04T18:44:00.000+02:002019-02-04T18:44:25.393+02:00Not sure. Anything.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With my work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems I hardly ever write in here anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have found out,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I don't use it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Believe me, it is not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It needs something,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I don't know what.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New wallpapers. Yes. No.Maybe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are drownig in snow.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-24824617659045300462018-09-23T15:23:00.001+03:002018-09-23T15:23:06.478+03:00The Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have always loved the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The salty smell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The waves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reflection of sun and moon on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And have missed it ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I lived my childhood and youth in Helsinki,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the beach, on the ilands,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peeking around the corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smelling salty through the spring, summer and fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hubby doesn't share that love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But he is loving me enough to drive me to the shore every now and then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When my constriction grows too heavy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just so I am able to breathe again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On stormy days to see </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When waves hits the shore </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and windy weather sprays salty water on your face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stays there with me until it gets too cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stays there with me.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-21410322060959218592018-07-12T19:40:00.001+03:002018-07-12T19:40:23.797+03:00IRRC - and weekend in Imatra<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hubby and I spent a weekend in Imatra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- and tens of thousand of other people,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who had came to Imatra to follow International Road Racing Competition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is different for me now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seven years I was hanging in pit stops, following races</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- and scared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was excitement from the very beginning of our trip:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this was the first time we used Motobiili -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">our son's motor home - all by ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I have spent a lot of time in it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even the dark one in Utti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is weird </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- there seems to be always at least a threat of the rain,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This wasn't the first time,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when we visit Imatra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There have been several <a href="http://motoristinmutsi.blogspot.com/search?q=imatra" target="_blank">Supermoto races </a>during the years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we were there <a href="http://miljoonanrikkaruohonpytinki.blogspot.com/2016/09/summer-holiday-started-and-ended-with.html" target="_blank">also in 2016</a> following IRRC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During these years I have turned kind of fan of Imatra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People in there are always so kind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They make athmosphere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which makes you feel the most welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent two nights by the river, Vuoksi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of IRRC - and our late decision to travel there -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There we were with some lambs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- and a rooster,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who defenately was in trouble with his chichens,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because one wake up call wasn't enough at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but we had time to wander around, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imatra is beautiful, clean, small town with a lot of to see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Saturday we took a ferry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which carried us over the Vuoksi river straight to entrance of stand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but fast and kind of fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dam has been under construction for two years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and there wasn't a show this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got giddy on the bridge over it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were lucky to see a small air show, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and one of their teachers showed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Straight up, rocket down.<br />horizontally and then upside down,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">curves and spiral. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="text-align: center;">On Saturday evening we went fishing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a hook and line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just because it is fun,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, we didn't catch any, hahhaa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just sitting on the dock,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sun glowing behind the clouds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excitement and peace.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-71829680765568788742018-06-10T11:58:00.003+03:002018-06-10T11:58:32.407+03:00No rain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It have been weeks from last rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost six.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nature is suffering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My plants are suffering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But: there isn't much damages made by Arianta arbustorum.</span></div>
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Blooming - even in my garden - is way ahead.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last years I have been so happy (and proud, too) about my oriental poppies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but this year it looks like I won't get any blooming ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there is many others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like peonies in my back yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and at least the ones in back yard will give me more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About the ones in front yard I am not sure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- it is so dry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that even all the moss have turned brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both, white rose and dog rose are in bloom, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting photos is harder right now:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I broke my camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And my phone is not good for photo shooting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not to mention the light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is bright and harch and makes everything white in camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the warmth came already in May,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have bought only few summer flowers yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But these are so jolly with bright yellow color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somehow I am living in the idea,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - atleast not here in south,</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-23736051949842195552018-06-02T16:54:00.001+03:002018-06-02T16:54:34.803+03:00Conservation area Lemmenlaakso<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday night we finally managed to get ourselves to Lemmenlaakso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It lies quite close to us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we have talked often,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that we should go there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until now it has only been talk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lemmenlaakso is conservation area around Keravanjoki banks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This two hours were different for us:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">usually we just go into nature,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but this time we had a guide. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a planned route.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are pathways around,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and during this time of year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- actually between 1st of April until 15th of July -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not to mention that West side of river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they were just a route,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where people had walked alot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In some spots stairs were made by nature itself:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with roots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High difference around is quite big.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the centuries river has carved out banks piece by piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In many places there were warnings not to go too near edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked also under the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which reached up high to the sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fallen trees in the river have a task:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they are nursery for juvenile fish covering them from pedatory fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like wood anemones,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which had alreydy gone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">liverwort and even yellow woodland anemones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time we were there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I managed to see others,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a bit later ones, like addersmeats...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solomon's seal...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lily of the valleys...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and dog's mercury, which I wouldn't been noticed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if our guide wouldn't show it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when dried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poison false lily of the valley is in turn very common.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blooming is very restrained with most of plants,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spring vetch was the only colorful one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">except ants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heard the birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And kind of peace.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-75509183515399132112018-05-27T15:32:00.004+03:002018-05-27T15:32:45.747+03:00Awesome days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weather has been really warm lately,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it has caused accelerated growth in my garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flip side of it is drought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not complaining</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- after last summer this is so much lovelier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but lilacs have already started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The smell...it is just heady...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though apple is loosing greatest blooming,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Malus toringo var. sargentii starts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With it's scent it brings me back to childhood summernights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blooming rowan means there won't be damages made by Argyresthia conjugella in apples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And these Caragana arborescenses are filled with yellow flowers...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No matter if you look up or down, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Violets...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...early Cow parsley...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually blooming around midsummer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but now in a hurry before growing high stalk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First geraniums...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and bergenias...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little dilapidated siberian clematis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-one of my favorites...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not water but pedals of apple blossoms...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four weeks more of this hard and bright light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doesn't help much.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-36889312677372060192018-05-19T21:53:00.002+03:002018-05-19T21:53:20.840+03:00Filled with spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring has sprung fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whole last week we have had heat,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and nature, as well as my garden, too,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I have enjoyed every and each of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yellow narcissuses...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ...double narcissuses...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...double yellow narcissuses...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...white narcissuses...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...with a<bdi class="vernacular" lang="en" style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.3px; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><b><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscari_armeniacum" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #663366; text-decoration-line: none;" title="en:Muscari armeniacum">rmenian grape hyacinth</a></b></bdi><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.3px;"> tulips looks like Easter card...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...cowslips in yellow, red and orange...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...Blue eyed Marys...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1600" height="247" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VbFyAL_n8Mc/WwBluGQTLVI/AAAAAAAAPYI/rV5uDdYSwlYIOHifZ4SCVKg77IPcg4a_QCLcBGAs/s400/kev%25C3%25A4tkaihonkukka2.jpg" style="text-align: center;" title="Omphalodes verna- kevätkaihonkukka - blue-eyed-Mary" width="400" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...even <b style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.3px;"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinca" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #663366; text-decoration-line: none;" title="en:Vinca">periwinkle</a> started their blooming early...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and wood anemones for mother...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...wild strawberries - sweeties in future...yam...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berry bushes and trees are blooming, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...cherry...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and apples...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Arianta arbustorums have risen... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> But right now I am enjoying everything I have. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't need to walk long,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Around here we have a lot of fields</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - and thickets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't know how else narrate those mixed forests around here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tangle, perhaps?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But when I slosh around,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I try to find something else.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Years and years ago a lady from nextdoor show me a place filled with liverwort</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and wood anemones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quite close to us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For some reason I haven't returned there after that before yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I painted it, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Either I didn't remember,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where the place was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- or forestry measures has destroyed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I saw something else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paradise plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Smaller and bigger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and junipers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though Unspotted lungwort is common,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not sure if I have seen it ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the most huge anthill.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-42124698959163516922018-05-06T15:15:00.003+03:002018-05-06T15:15:25.959+03:00Evening by Rapids of Nukari<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it calms you down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when it cascases with it's all force,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it also scares - and enchants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the rapids in spring it is easy to believe in the spirit of water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And how it lures you to join in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I, however, stayed on banks.</span></div>
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Visiting Nukarinkoski rapids was a great way to spent Saturday evening.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nukarinkoski rapids is part of Vantaanjoki </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- and biggest part of rapids in the whole river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost 2000 meters long and 25 meters slope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">making vortexes and looking like it was trying to change its direction backwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It made few smaller offshoots...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and came back together for bigger watercourse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It meander...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">an made small deceptive backwaters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the rapid there are few wooden bridges</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which we overcrossed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a little scary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- even though bridges were in good shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right now it is overflowing, for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is dam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under it the noise of the rapid was so loud,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if wanted to be heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And ruins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have it been a place for dam guard?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moss-covered stones and boulders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bent over it to pick it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't a trash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have now idea,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was three of them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one tiny, this one and one bigger under a branch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we were down in basin,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looked like it was sprouting from the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surroundings charm was also made by trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some bending over the rapids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We left at the time the sun was almost landed down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At upper reaches the river was looking calm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where we stopped on the way home.</span></div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-71201804294908349562018-01-08T18:36:00.002+02:002018-01-08T18:36:11.849+02:00Not good<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post will be different. <br />
No nice photos nor any other kind of photos either.<br />
This post will enclude my unhappy thoughts, as well there might be even brutal expression. This might be also political, if it would be read like it is - it is left to reader to decide.<br />
And it is also possible to not go on reading, if you just choose so. </span><br />
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I have been reading a lot of news lately.<br />
Even though I already know, it is not good for me.<br />
And I have read comments on web.<br />
It is like a dope.<br />
You know it will harm you, but you just get more and more. No matter, what will the cost be.<br />
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And I feel sick.<br />
Mentally. Physically.<br />
Distressed.<br />
Frustrated.<br />
Helpless.<br />
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For my opinion our goverment is filled with greedy, extortionate people, who wants to take anything they can from those, who are disanvantaged. And cover their intentions into false testemomy. <br />
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They take safety away from people, who are having hard times already.<br />
They build class society, where there isn't any dignity, if you're not alike them. <br />
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I assume, with this attitude, they will get <br />
Moonlighting.<br />
More criminality.<br />
More suicides.<br />
More extended suicides.<br />
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Is this really the kind of society they -or we - want?<br />
Society, which cannot feel emphaty for those,<br />
whose life is harder than ours?<br />
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Of course, it is never possible for all those, who already believe, that they are better, to be unemployed. <br />
They will never be in situation,<br />
in which they will need help and support.<br />
Oh, no, that is always the others, <br />
who are just lazy.<br />
Or stupid.<br />
All those 190 000.<br />
Just lazy dudes,<br />
who are living on your tax-money.<br />
They really deserve to be punished.<br />
To be so unlucky, <br />
someone else have been chosen instead of them.<br />
That could never happen to you.<br />
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I feel sick.<br />
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But I am low enough to say to you,<br />
if I ever find out, that you have been one of those, who feel no emphaty today, <br />
If you ever be in need:<br />
Really? You asked it.<br />
All by yourself.</span>Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-7775648962385586402018-01-02T21:18:00.001+02:002018-01-02T21:18:42.999+02:00One picture per month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to remember something else from last year than worries -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I knew there were also good moments:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some were very small,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Hietaniemi in January, Cyclo cross race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cold of course, it was January.</span></div>
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Rokkari, the old tomcat, in new beddings.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't bought them for him, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In March shorts walks around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Less than 1 km at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Short deviation in April by the river in Kerava.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Road trip to Madona, Latvia, in May. Because of Supermoto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Via Baltica. Short trip to Cesvaine in the evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> June in my garden, with it's million weeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just hanging around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weeds and blooming...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Climbing on the hill of Huhtimonmäki in August.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoying the nature around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Eastern Finland in September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rocks, lake and wild berries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Over the sea i</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">n October </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to pick up our poor car,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which was mashed in May's snowstorm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In November it was dark. So wet and dark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And December. Independence Day, 100th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rääpäle visiting office on the way to vet.</span></div>
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.<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just to remember the good moments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whole a lot more photos in <a href="http://www.instagram.com/motoristinmutsi">Instagram.</a></span></div>
Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-24042026786636918562017-12-28T16:15:00.003+02:002017-12-28T16:15:22.798+02:00 A flu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a flu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nasty, tiring flu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not bad enough to stay in bed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but nasty enough to get you sneeze and cough all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for the grandchildren, I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been writing this for two days now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally decided:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there will be just few photos from our Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And just so that the truth will not be forgotten...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year there was only eight of us.</span></div>
Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-5590163630564143202017-12-23T20:19:00.000+02:002017-12-23T20:20:11.510+02:00A year ago and now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Around this time of year, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I wrote about the thing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://miljoonanrikkaruohonpytinki.blogspot.fi/2016/12/its-sin.html" target="_blank">which bothered me alot</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> Today, during preparing our home for tomorrow,</span></div>
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I listened Christmas songs.</div>
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My heart is speechless.</div>
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I hung some paintings,</div>
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painted by my aunt,</div>
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who passed away at St Lucia's Day.</div>
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I've been baking.</div>
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My eldest son has heated up old oven for the ham.</div>
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I have cleaned kitchen.</div>
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Tomorrow I will iron table clothes</div>
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Tomorrow we will celebrate:</div>
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the darkest time of the year is over.</div>
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Motoristin Mutsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001529174337140988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435891546120737709.post-30527474985523080942017-12-10T10:16:00.000+02:002017-12-10T10:16:07.665+02:00Little thoughts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My grandparents got married in August 1917.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were married 40 years, had 6 children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never met my grandfather,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he passed away 1958.</span></div>
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I really don't know much of their lives</div>
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- but it had to be way more harder than mine.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They had lived their youth under Russian rule,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">marriage in small farm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">send two of their sons to war,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">grandmother burried all three.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But they -and their children -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They gave for me a chance to set the table for my family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I did this year, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, never finished it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because my little guests were so hungry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that they couldn't wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I am not harsh enough for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During this year, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have got my part of that joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like ProPatria concert inTamperetalo...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not to mention a cake during interregnum :-D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Many of fireworks around,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a short pleasures here and there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing sunshine in November...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..sudden snow thrown down...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- even it has melt away fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And lighted flag at our flagpole in the eve of 100th Independence Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gratefull for my parents and grandparents giving me all this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Proud of what they have made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> My Christmas time isn't Christmas time without flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love the smell of cinnamon, clove and ginger,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but I am able to live without them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But flowers - specially hyacinth - that is a total must.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No matter how much I am sneezing, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and there have been Christmases,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when those have been the only flowers in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- and three hyacints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just for the start...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">snow came and is gone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and everything is dark and black around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Right nowI don't have more turqouise decor on hand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Independence Day is coming soon anyway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so I am using what I have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blue-white-silver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blue napkin rings with silver, small pine cones and "berries". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Covered with glitter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so they cannot be put on plate...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White cloves made from fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several old decor from earlier years' set-ups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two cypresses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And between them hiding one hyacinth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And some hearts made from mandarin peels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- just trying to keep Rääpäle away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I have dark blue table cloth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it needed something to get it to separate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I put paper doily under it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Two other hyacinths went into basket just the way they are...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the last cypress into the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a little gray elf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 100th.</span></div>
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<img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5ctRnG0PX2M/Whw_-j0dODI/AAAAAAAAONg/o_lOC9-_xJY4BEyPV9dgJWkZ-NbQpyq6ACLcBGAs/s400/valkoinen%2Bneilikka.jpg" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" title="Blue, white, silver and green" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It starts from Kekri </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dark turqouise runners on the table front of window and dresser back of the table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lighted tree, which I got last Christmas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some turquoise tulle with stars into big lantern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lights and glittered branches in it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> On the small silver plate I put glittered pine cones, turquoise roses and pearl ribbon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- and the other ribbon with plastic, shiny pearls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For something,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After five long months </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lithuan insurance company and Motor insurers' centre done their agreement,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and we were able to get Chrysler home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still not sure,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probably not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But we did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What to say about the trip?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Getting up before sunrise and over the Gulf of Finland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To the beautiful city of Tallinn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where I spent a day watching hubby fixing car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sitting in the car wathing Finlandia arriving at the dock...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Felt myself very small.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beautiful evening sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could be staring it all the way back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We spent a day in nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was a beautiful day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The sunlight was dancing around...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">climbing up to the hill...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and in the nature rested soul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the Haukkavuori hill...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...by the Keravanjoki river...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started two weeks holiday today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are spending Midsummer weekend at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No festival, no summer cottage, no camping area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And garden.</span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is so much blooming at this time of year</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- and when nighsts are light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it can be seen almost all night long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like columbines...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Rhododendrons...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spotted hawkweeds,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which sleeps in nights...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lady' s mantles with bright yellow-green inflorescences...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daisies...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cow parsley...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">woodland geranium...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the dew has landed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they spread their scents allover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dame's violets...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scotch roses...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and early peonies...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut some of them to bring their beauty and smell inside, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our youngest will turn 27 tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my world days have blended like pearls -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one after the other,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">runned around when the chain has broken.</span></div>
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There have been warm, shiny days,</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and cold, windy, rainy days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lying evenings on the coutch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And during that time summer has arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With all its glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In violet and in yellow...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In white and in red...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In pink and in blue...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colors and heady scents all over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am blessed to have so much beauty around me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- and my children.</span></div>
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