That's fine, I'll off load a couple of pines I shot over 10 years ago with a pocket film camera. :)
Bonsai like tree in Lapland.
I didn't have much to do at the moment. Miro and I are anxiously waiting for Leo to come from school, so I can take both my boys to their first piano lessons, so I decided to look if I had some other pictures, and memories to share here.
Another natural bonsai
These were taken in the Pyhätunturi national park in Finnish Lapland. I could say my roots are there. In my childhood I used to spend most of my Summers there in the care of my grandparents. It was before people were so worried about letting their kids outside. Me and my friends there used to spend whole days climbing the hills and adventuring in the forests. Mind you we never got lost, and often, unless we'd been fishing, when we got back home we'd be hungry as wolves. No-one would ask why we'd been away so long. It was fun times.
A rare, and expensive kind of a birch.
One particular thing I recall of those summers was the coffee was always hot. It wasn't rare for some distant relative or a neighbor to step straight through the open front door and come to sit and chat with my grandparents in the kitchen over a cup of coffee and pastries. I don't recall the doors were ever locked. We might've been visiting "the church" (meaning the nearest town Kemijärvi 50 km down south) and when we got back, someone would be in the kitchen having a cup of coffee, waiting for us.
I couldn't imagine something like that working in today's Finland. People rarely meet each other anymore, all communications is done remotely via phones, email or chats, and no-one has time to come visit over a cup. We are all too busy.
Well that's about it for now. A little moment of reminiscence to hopefully entertain you. :)
Oh, and I'll definitely keep you guys updated on our boys' musical advances too.
See ya!
