and some more driving...

romantic
enter...
wooden
sunset 7.7.07
s/s Norkulla
and the year was...
targetpractice
a modest butterfly
taste of honey


Somehow it seems to be increasing, the driving or sitting in the car. Or maybe it is just my relationship with driving: it used to be fun - now it mostly feels tiresome. And something is broken too frequently. But that is the price of living here.

Some snaps of insects.... And I had a one day holiday on the 7th of july: start at 7.00 am to Helsinki with a young friend and return back home next morning at 6.00 - sleepydrive, but the day was !!!

wallpaintings

Last saturday we completed the wallpaintings at Kukkula, the house for youngsters and their activities. Went quite well - better than I expected - and the result is for you to see here.

Today is my birthday - many of those have passed and no-one has yet noticed this one - ! Weather is fine, the dog is out at the yard and all is almost well - just my car: it is properly broken, worn-out, but with a lot of new parts and work... maybe it will once more roam the roads and byways.

uusi perheenjäsen - new familymember

Kaksi vuotta olen ollut ilman koiraa, kaksi vuotta!! Kuinka olen voinut olla? Siltä se ainakin nyt tuntuu, kun Piki on ollut meillä kaksi viikkoa: ei ole elämää ilman karvaista kaveria. Vaikka eihän Piki minun koirani oikeastaan ole, vaan vanhimman poikani Tuomaksen, tai meidän yhteinen.

Piki on eteläsuomalaisesta löytöeläinkodista sellainen pitovaikeuksien vuoksi poisluovutettu parivuotias, sekarotuinen musta susi. Ehkä vähän pienempi olisi ollut parempi, mutta minkäs se koolleen mahtaa. Kohtuullisen mukavasti se on kotiutunut, mitä nyt ekalla viikolla ahmaisi ranskalaisen keittiön salaisuudet ja myöhemmin pari muuta kirjaa. Lempipaikakseen se löysi työpöytäni, missä se seisoi ja katseli ikkunasta ulos, mutta nyt olen rakentanut kiipeämisesteen ja laskenut kaihtimen, joten ikkunasta ei näe ulos, ja paikan viehätys on ilmeisesti ja toivottavasti haihtunut.

Lähes päivittäin olemme juosseet tai löntystäneet viitisen kilometriä tuota pientä tietä ja metsä on sille ollut ihmeellinen: se ei varmaan koskaan ole päässyt nuuskimaan sellaisia 'villejä' hajuja ja lennättämään pyita karkuun ojasta ja metsästämään sisiliskoja aurinkoisilta koivunjuurilta (onneksi ne ovat niin vikkeliä...).

Ja jo nyt rakkaalla lapsella on monta nimeä: Piki - Piksu - Pikseli....

northern blowing

Quite a wind blowing. The roads are in a bad state so please no rain or snow, or my car will be ex.

So the days pas and just today in a long while I began to feel like resuming this blogging. Somehow it has been feeling like : I've nothing to say, I don't want to produce buullshit, why should I have an opinion when it doesn't matter anyway. But it is like the election: if you don't vote don't miss the democracy when it is gone. And you will notice when that happens. Even now, when fewer people vote, you can observe the consequences: there is a cleft dividing the society, a cleft in income and standard on living - we have the poor again! And when this tendency continues it will one day turn to aggression. As it allways has. Why don't they look in the history? Why make the same mistakes over and over again? I've allways thought that as stupidity.

Well, that was not my meaning to preach, but it turns me on...

We have been making a new movie with the kids - in fact several movies. A few short ones and one longer with a plot. The short ones are more abstract, but, I hope, yet comprehensible.

Might describe it all as sex and drugs and rock'n'roll....

In the pictures there is the making of a scene, where a young girl has been knifed to death...

new friends

ermine footprints
it is really
an ermine!!

On a sunday in october I saw them for the first time, two of them: they were running round the courtyard, playing! And then later every now and then by the tree or near the car. And when there has been some snow on the ground there small footprints make delightful patterns. Today I came back from my daily walk and ho! there it was all white but the tip of its tail. Just a few meters away. And it went under the car and back to me and on the lawn towards the trees and back again... I went in to fetch my camera and still it was playing. Unfortunately it was very quick, I was hasty and it was rather dim already so the pictures are not very good...

it is christmasholiday

and will be for two weeks. Today I had my mobile ringing at church in the middle of the service with all schoolkids laughing out loud and the priest making observations from the pulpit. YES!!! Then I had coffee at Erkku and delivered some picture-CD:s before driving to Äänekoski-city. There I collected one of my sons and we did some shopping - food mainly for christmas (12 kg ham etc...). Now we will not starve...
I'm going to rest this evening and then become absorbed with the two manuscripts I am working at. The boys will happily enough take care of practicalities like cleaning and cooking and the christmastree. Somehow I'm feeling quite happy and contented.

well well

It has been dark, but somehow it doesn't affect me. I don't seem to notice. I've allways been more apt to get depressed in spring. Not so much nowadays as when I was younger. You get more endurance by the years. It takes alot to kill a man, a lot more than you imagine. On the otherhand - less than you imagine, just a tiny error in estimation.
We have 'The Artsalon' open at Aanekoski - some new kind of pictures - collages.

Lazy me

I promised to myself not to make keeping this blog a stressing must and so the days pass and nothing happens. Everyday life just glides from one day to the next and so on. I'm not sleeping well and my head aches continually. I should not be such a perfectionist - it is childish and unrealistic. Just to do my job and be content. Yes. but how difficult it is!

Changed

my blog to this new form. Somehow I'm slow to make changes, but eventually they take place if not sooner then later...

slippery ice

on the road today, and last night, when I was driving home. Today I had my daily walk.
Now I've been going through some old fotographs. Bloody time, running too fast.

iceflowers

iceflower
iceleaves
snowbride
winterlight
and cold, so cold. At this time of autumn, it is quite exceptional. But beautiful it is, no denying. I took 200 pictures on my afternoonwalk. And I tried to film the full moon in the evening. Haven't checked the result yet. Lovely to have all this new technics to play with, to explore.

light white icing

a scrap still life with icing
the skull


Yes, it is here, the winter. For a while we shall chop firewood and warm up the ovens. And have cosy evenings with hot wine by the fire. It doesn't much matter even if the electricity is interrupted because of a fast wind or excessive snow.
But it is hard to the car, and I have to admit that I'm not the sporting momwonder that I used to be. But just day by day we shall plough our way through the winter.

Nice weekend, anyway. with boys and their friends.