Life of sled dogs in pictures

Time to run already? Or is it time for food?

I'm so small and cute please pet me!

Otava (=Big dipper) looking innocent after staling and hiding lambmeat

Come on already!

Can I maybe have a scratch?

Näätä (=marten) begging for attention

Intiiani found the best place to lay down: on the reindeer skins

Wolfdog puppies, little biting monsters

Otava(=Big Dipper) sleeping after a busy day

The dogs do love attention!

Favourite thing: running!

Näätä (=marten) is getting his food

Halo

Halos are rings of light that can encircle the sun or the moon, and they usually occur when a thin layer of cirrus clouds are present in the sky. Usually this means that there will be rainy days ahead.

Find more about halos here: 

http://earthsky.org/space/what-makes-a-halo-around-the-moon

https://weather.com/news/news/sun-halos-florida-20140416

Douple Exposure: Steller's Sea Eagle

DoupleExposure: Eagle Owl

Fortress park

I was visiting the Fortress park in Reposaari, Pori. You can find 60 years old cannon stations, bunkers, dugouts and a tower. It's hard to think that in this peaceful place in the forest men have maybe fought for their lives. I step over a stone and can't stop the thought of dead bodies and blood on the ground.

Two Different Worlds

I feel so thoughtful near water. I feel like I'm on the edge of two different worlds and it bothers me that I cannot be part of the other, not really.
Water can be so many things... Calm or fierce, helpful or dangerous. Water can either heal or destroy. It has a voice of it's own and it can speak it with a whisper or with a roar. You can stare the waves for ever and still each wave is different every time. Or you can listen the river for ages and it's always telling you a new story. And the scent of the sea or river or lake or brackish water... Water can be so many things but still it is the same.

Some of Pori's Lighthouses: Kallo and Reposaari

 We visit the Kallo island (means Skull) where the lighthouse has stood over a hundred years. It is quite small and not the most beutiful of lighthouses, but still the most photographed one in Finland, propably because of the nearby parking lot.

 Reposaari ('foxisland') has also a small lighthouse. This is the place where largest amounts of herring is unloaded around the Gulf of Bothnia and also it is the biggest fishingport in Finland.

At summertime about twenty fishing vessels keep the Reposaari fishingport as their home port and in wintertime the number douples, when the Bay of Bothnia freezes. There is big brakwaters shielding the port and in mild winters the port usually stays melted.

Picture of the Invisible: Wind

A windy spring day at Yyteri beach, Pori. The sand is flying to my eyes and the sea is loud, you cannot hear much else.

 Still, it's very peaceful, just me, the wind and the sea. I know that the sand and the dunes will change with the wind, so it's unique right now.

 I leave a small sign of myself on the sand, but in seconds, it's gone.

Teemuluodon lintutornissa/ At the Teemuluoto birdwatch tower

It's spring, but the colors are still of autumn. The birds sing everywhere. We see some rare birds like the Western Marsh Harrier and White Tailed Sea Eagle which the very professional looking birdwatchers spot for us. I feel a bit ridiculous with my teeny weeny binoculars but then take out my Very Long And Impressive Objective and even get some pictures of the Harrier (and say it).

In the forest you can hear a thousand birds but they are all hidden in the still leafless trees somewhere near by. The Caffinch sings with the sound of summer and comes to check who's visiting their forest.

Visitors at the bird feeder/ vieraita lintulaudalla

 pheasant/fasaanikukko

The Pheasant (which we call Pol Pot after an Asian tyrant, don't ask why) is an old friend, he is smaller than the others and more familiar with people. During the day you can hear him yelling outside, hobbing around. If you go on the porch, he comes closer to see if you have anything to eat, maybe you could throw some for him too?

 Europea goldfinch/Tikli

Waiting/ Odotus

Unelma keväästä/ Dreaming of Spring

One starry night in Lapland

A cold night with millions of stars and a warm fire with hot drinks and cookies. Plus a bridge and clear water reflecting all the lights. It's so beautiful that you forget cold fingers, or all the other griefs in your life.

Aurora Borealis Northern Lights in Nellim, Lapland, Finland