Row your boat

Rowing

Key Theme: Water (continues)

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

Midsummer Bonfire

Midsummer Festival -

not even the sun goes to sleep

This pic is taken last Midsummer. It's the time in Finland that sun does not go down but one could describe it's slowly circling up in the sky. So the nights are not dark at all.

In my family we have a tradition every year at Midsummer Evening to build a bonfire - and I love sitting by it and just watch the flames. And watch. And watch. It somehow feels like the_time_gone, our ancestors in stoneage, is after all not so far from us, because they did the same - stared into flames like we do today.

Juhannuskokko
Sen tulta ja liekkien leikkiä voisin tuijottaa vaikka ikuisuuden. Siihen ei koskaan kyllästy. Tuntuu ihmeelliseltä ajatella, että niin on ihminen tehnyt ihmiskunnan alusta asti.

Natural Mirror

Upside down

or was it just the opposite?

I was driving by with a boat on one summer evening. It just happened that the water was very calm and the evening sun lit this little island perfectly. I noticed the reflection in water and told to my hubby to stop the boat, I wanted to capture what I saw. And there it is, a mirror.

But which way is the right way? :)

Marmalade Hoverfly

Summer and the insects.

Not one without the other. 

 May I present Marmalade Hoverfly to you. 

These guys were funny, they were not afraid for me at all - they just sat there :) 

Pics from Lanzarote

 Pics from Lanzarote

Key Theme: Water

Just an ordinary family trip to Lanzarote for a vacation. Of course I had to shoot some pictures also to the family album. Here's some of them:

Surfers stand_up_paddling in Lanzarote.

I did quite well with this (the B&W one ^) pic in a Photo Contest I attended to.

The Atlantic Ocean and the island La Graciosa. Place where the pic is taken is called Mirador del Rio, up in the most north of Lanzarote. I loved this scenery - the ocean, the sky and the horizon, all blue as long as you can see.