Sleeping Beauties - Prinsessa Ruususia

In Finland plants are having their long beauty sleep under the snow.

So great that they don't sleep a hundred years as Sleeping Beauty in the fairy tale!

Yet no sign of spring - but there they are!

In Finnland haben die Pflanzen ihren langen Schönheitsschlaf unter dem Schnee.

So toll, dass sie nicht hundert Jahre als Dornröschen im Märchen schlafen!

Noch kein Frühlingszeichen - aber da sind sie!

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Happy weekend! - Schönes Wochenende! - Mukavaa viikonloppua!

I think this Papaver orientale 'Olympia' is both 

a Sleeping Beauty & a pretty Ballet Dancer in the same person!

Ich denke, dieser Papaver Orientale "Olympia" ist beides -

ein Dornröschen & ein hübscher Balletttänzer in der gleichen Person!

Freezing Cold

This bruce fence of my neighbour would need a good cutting.

As I said in my Tuesday post we have had it freezing cold 10-15 C below zero.
This Thursday morning we had - 20C!

But the LIGHT and pale winter SUN have made days so beautiful.

My friends more south are admiring snowdrops, we here in The North

pure sparkling snow and structures covered with snow!

In the summer I have some sedums growing on top of this old rusty thing.

This sundial is resting under blanket of snow - new energy for the next season :)

My only DIY of this winter - very lazy me! - was to make an ice lantern,

I did not have at home withering tulips that some have used,

so I took a few cactus branches that were rotting - too much water, poor me :)
Look at Taina's blog post, she has good instructions there.

Frost on a climber support.

And to finish with some white & blue flowers for Taina's Kukkailottelua.

A very pretty Streptocarpus - Aikasten nätti Soilikki!

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I wish you all a lovely winter weekend - with snow or without!

January in Collage

In January I photographed mainly tulips & snow - of which

we have had plenty of. The days have been pretty grey...

Let's hope the sun reappears now that February is starting.

The life has run its smooth course. The most striking happening was maybe

the Goshawk in my garden.

There he / she was again yesterday, but too far for me to photograph.

I'll publish anyway this bad photo taken through a dirty window as an evidence :)

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Green Weekend

- this is as green as it can get here in January!

Wishing you a good start to February!

Is it possible to get buried in the snow?

Happy Wednesday my dear readers! I hope you have more pleasant weather than us 

here in the southern Finland. I'm really serious with my question 

and am afraid that I get buried in the snow!

Voiko lumeen hukkua tai hautautua, epäilen vahvasti että voi!

Yesterday...

Today!

Yesterday there was no snowing and a pale winter sun & blue sky - so delightful.

I had the intention of going today to the river to take some beautiful winter photos

- but no way! It keeps pouring snow like from the hell.

Quite impossible to take any photos today - so I show you some from yesterday.

Tarkoitus oli mennä ihanalle talviselle kuvausretkelle, mutta eipä tullut mitään!

Winter Wonderland - wonderful? - Maybe not!

Aikuisten oikeesti tää lumentulo jo riittäisi!

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Stay cosy and keep warm! Good humour helps they say!