Ooohh these dusky mornings. Sitting here, savouring a lingonberry smoothie which I spent sunny days picking last September; having exactly these mornings in mind. Need these vitamin and flavour bombs to make it through the winter. It's also the link between the seasons, and while I may sit here and wonder whether those warm green days in the woods ever really happened, the berries in my hand reassure me; yes they did. It was real. And summer will come again. Snow came late, a

Was out for my weekly hike yesterday. Weather condition's great: surprisingly cold, -16 C! Left the sun in Rovaniemi, and ran into some interesting icy mist or fog in the woods. Shows white is really not white but can be all kinds of shades. Also found a shelter I hadn't been to before. There was a family sitting there when I came, they were nice and chatty, I enjoyed their company; on my outing's I haven't lately met people that like to talk too much. Which is fine too. The

​​ A much loved friend only visits us for a few hours a day right now: LIGHT. Polar night is setting in and it's the darkest time of year here. I saw somewhere a newspaper clip where there is the hour at which the sun rises the next day in different places. For Utsjoki, at the top northernmost corner of Finland, said January 16 11.50 AM. Think about that for a second. The sun won't rise til 6 weeks from now . Well, I am not living that far north, I am merely at the southern b