Frozen berries
We visited Tervola last weekend. I’ve been waiting for weather to get better, i.e. cooler, before going there, but it didn’t seem to be happening anytime soon and we had a good chance.
Saturday was warm and wet, even if it didn’t exactly rain. The evening was cooler, and the clouds disappeared, revealing the starry sky. It’s a beautiful sight after watching the light pollution in the city for the whole autumn.
For the most of Sunday the temperature kept a few degrees below zero, and everything was covered in frost on the outside. We walked for about two hours around the frosty forest.
Some berries get better when they freeze a bit. Lingonberries were available everywhere:
We were lucky to find a few cranberries, too, frozen stuck in the moss. Mmm.. :-)
X-mas attack
Christmas shopping season starts in November (at the latest). Not just some time in November – oh no, right on the 1st day they had a truckful of decorations unloaded and ready:
For some reason I find this very funny – just like kids anxiously wait for christmas eve, running in circles and making their parents go nuts, the shopkeepers must be waiting for the glorious 1st of November in excitement.
“Dear, I have nothing to do! How can it still be three weeks! .. and what if the buyers don’t come this year? Or if they have got their lists wrong and I don’t have the the right kind of stuff? Aaargh, I’m so boooored!!”
“Oh for crap’s sake, go put up some sort of central warehouse sale”