Adventures after Dark
Adorable little bee! Breathtaking picture!
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March 24, 2013
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These bee pictures are absolutely gorgeous! It makes me want that macro camera lens even more! Can’t wait to sit out in the sun and watch the bees drink nectar and pollinate in my roof top garden!
One of the cutest stores I found in Tampere Finland – Taito Shop
I had my boyfriend Henrik drop me off here while he caught up with his college friends at a pub across the street called The Office. I probably spend hours at Taito. Everything was soo cute. The thick yarns you see are called “t shirt” yarn in America. They are very easy to find in Finland and are most commonly used to make carpets.
Lenin Museum (Lenin-Museo) in Tampere Finland
This was a very unique museum. Lenin has a history in Tampere Finland so it’s not that random that there should be a museum dedicated to him in Tampere.
In Nokia Land and Angry Birds Land for the holidays (Tampere, #Finland)
Terve folks! (that means Hello in Finnish). I’ve been visiting Tampere, Finland for the last 10 days and I have 6 more to go. The purpose of my visit was to meet my boyfriend’s family for the first time. It’s been wonderful to experience Suomi (Finnish) holiday traditions with Henrik’s family. They have made me feel so welcome, that once in a while I slip Mom and Dad when I talk about his parents! :-p
I will upload my pictures intermittently.
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- Downtown Tampere’s frozen river with boats frozen in it
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- Downtown Tampere
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- Chevy in Finland??!
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- Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- View from Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- View from Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- View from Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- Cute Hansel and Gretel house in Pispala of Tampere
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- Standing on a frozen lake in our neighborhood
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- Neighborhood park of birch trees and snow and rabbits who eat the bark of trees
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- Reminds me of a George Winston album cover
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- Henrik being adventerous walking around the frozen lake. We started to hear cracking sounds at this point.
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- Henrik standing on the froze lake
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- These benches covered in snow made me laugh
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- Another bench covered in snow
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- Finnish ducks are still alive
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- The sun is setting at around 3:30 pm
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- Everything is covered in snow
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- More sun set picture
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- Henrik by the duck pond
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- Happy ducks
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- By the lake
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- Standing on the frozen lake
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- Famous Tampere bridge with neat statues Hameensilta
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- I call this the Salmiakki river because it’s black
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- Neat view of the river from a restaurant
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- Me standing in snow by Hameensilta
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- I just loved how cool this restaurant/bar looked!
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- Elif in the snow
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- Henrik taking the view in
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- Some knitters wanted to keep the railing warm! 🙂
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- The Mietinnen Family Christmas tree
Knowledge is power. I never would have thought about the ethics of foraging, but thanks to Alrie Middlebrook’s recommendation, I read this article and have a deeper understanding of the responsibilites a forager must realize to treat nature respectfully.
When he was a boy, Jonah Raskin’s father used to take them out down the beach at low tide, and below the water line looking for clams. They’d occasionally fall into arguments with their neighbors, but his father — a lawyer — knew his business, the property line stops at the waterline. He also brought home perhaps another important lesson — don’t take home more than you need.
Jonah Raskin now lives on an old farm in Sonoma, and gleans from old orchard trees, a neighbor farmer lets him pick what he needs from his fields, and goes out know and again for mushrooms.
Mushroom pickers delight in sharing recipes for their finds, but are notoriously secretive about their locations. Locations are jealously guarded secrets because people fear coming back to their spot and finding nothing left.
Leaving something behind is a big part of a foragers ethic — not…
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