The first day of 2020.

This winter seems to be special, October was colder than normally, then it started to rain, in November here was flood alert. In Western Finland water in rivers and lakes flooded to fields. At the beginning of December we had some snow, it melted away. At Christmas night is was snowing, in the Boxing Day raining. The Year 2020 started without snow, temperature +3°C/ 39°F.  Normally at this time we have snow enough to ski, temperature about -10°C/ 14°F. Very interesting to see the mid winter in February, skiing or swimming.

Great, no snow. Walk with me through the new year.

The warmest May ever!

What a month, we have enjoyed of warm weather every day.  The borderline between warm and hot is here 25°C / 77° F. In May we had 14 days over that borderline and it is all times record. Normally we don´t have so many hot days during the whole summer. Now it starts to be too dry, last rain was on the 3rd of May and the nature is suffering. We are told to have water bowls in our yards for birds, hedgehogs, for everybody.

Flowers on an apple tree.

A Wood Anemome.

Fire wood for the winter done.

Our young Horse-Chestnut has two flowers.

I got a great tan.

Prepairing for the Winter.

A blue moment.

During these first months of a year we have blue moments after a sunset.  Everything is blue, the sky, snow, air. Today the sun rose 9.41 and sets 15.26. It is cold now and birds sit up on birches trying to catch every possible sun beam for warming.

The most beautiful green and white nights. Kaikkein kaunein vihreä ja valoisat yöt.

Light green birches mean here so much. Dark and cold winter is behind. Warm days and white  nights are here.

The Midnight Sun only shines above the Arctic Circle, but nights are white all over the country. In the northern parts of Finnish Lapland, the sun stays above the horizon for over 70 consecutive days. In a municipality of Utsjoki, the sun rose 17.5 and the next sunset is 27.7. We live in the western Finland and here the sun sets just for a while and rises again.