A sorta fairytale: Forests and gardens.

Hello!

What a week we've been having here in Finland!

Today is a scorching hot +30 celcius (way too hot for Finland!) and yesterday and tomorrow are thunderstorms. I love me some good lightning and thunder...except of course when I am working (like tomorrow) and have to go from place to place in the rain... Oh well, only 9 days left till VACATION! Yay!!!

We went blueberry picking (ok, it was just a lot of walking around, no one had the attention span left to pick berries) and mushrooming on Wednesday evening. The Koda bear came with us to make sure we didn't get lost (he runs from each one of us the next to make sure we're still together, herder much?) and in general be a cute bear.

I spent my time taking pictures of the scenery and moss.

Pictures below. :)

I love that everywhere you go in Finland, you'll find huge (granite) boulders. I was so impressed in middle school to learn that these are all remnants from the ice age. I've always found history magical.

Here you can kind of make out the ant road back to their massive hill. I like the Finnish word for ant hill, it's "keko".

The moose that doo together, stay together apparently...

Wild heather!

This is a "vanamo" or Linnaea Borrealis. They bloom earlier in the summer, but I managed to find one with a flower still on it!!! I think they are super pretty and feminine flowers. A jewellery company that is popular here in Finland has a line called vanamo, check it out!

A slightly larger ant hill...

Me taking shadow portraits of myself in the moss, complete with berry picking bucket.

Yesterday was a productive day off from work on the crochet front (mainly because of the stormy weather), but I am not going to share what I am up to until tomorrow or Sunday, because I am trying to piece together a unfinished project post like Amanda Makes. So stay tuned, I finally have crocheted granny squares to show you!

Today after work, we went to the garden to see what the raspberries were up to... and my were there raspberries!

We are under strict orders from my mom not to pick the currants until August 1st. So I just took pictures of them instead. If you haven't already seen this post by Sue at The Quince Tree, do check out her white currant pictures and the tart she made -- gorgeous!!!