How are you?

How was your summer?

I had a good, busy, loooong and sunny summer!

I miss you but…

My break is not over yet.

I’ll change my web host.

All my blogs are going to be closed on Tuesday 13th of September.

I’ll be back with a new post (latest) beginning of October.

Have you been or do you live in San Francisco?

I’m traveling to SF at the end of this month.

Please give me links, tips why and what to do in SF! thanks!

Happy end of September!

Moi kaikille!

Kaikki blogini sulkeutuvat tiistaina 13.9.2011 palvelinvaihdoksen takia.

Lähden jenkkeihin perjantaina 16.9. enkä ehdi reissun aikana bloggailla,

joten

palaan bloggauksen pariin viimeistään lokakuun alussa.

Jos olet käynyt San Franciscossa, kerro mitä ja miksi kannattaisi kokea!

Mukavaa syyskuun loppua!

ps. Would you like to continue WO*IMA?

I have a break here because I have so many

projects going on right now…but

I post my pictures here more or less regularly:

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Have a great, relaxing summer everyone!

See you in the autumn!

(or earlier if I have time)

Mukavaa ja relaa kesää kaikille, tavataan taas syksyllä!

I was in Helsinki from Tuesday till Saturday – now back in Casablanca.

I was organizing things – we’re going to move back to Helsinki at the end of March.

There was still a lot of snow…

In Casa it was raining this morning but now the sky is blue again…

There are a zillion cats around looking for free dinner…

Abandoned houses, buildings are interesting objects to shoot pictures…

I had a technical problem from Sunday evening till Monday midday.

I was not able to read nor sign into my blogs,

you were not able to read/leave comments.

Now everything seems to be normal again.

It’s nice to be back!

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2011

♥ ♥ ♥

“We will open the book.

Its pages are blank.

We are going to put words on them ourselves.

The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

• Edith Lovejoy Pierce •

Cheers!

Hyvää Uutta Vuotta 2011

kaikille suomenkielisille lukijoilleni!

♥ ♥ ♥

I’m on my way back to Casa.

I should be there on Thursday but as you all know

there’s a chaos in Europe because of the snow.

There’s more snow in Helsinki than in Lapland!

UPDATE:

I made it back to Casa almost on time!

Lufthansa‘s staff was REALLY nice and

did their best for us passengers. Well done!

I want to wish you all

Happy holidays! Merry Christmas!

Leppoisaa joulunaikaa!

These pictures I shot 21.12.2010

St Thomas Christmas Market in Esplanade Park, Helsinki, Finland

Shadow Shot Sunday

Sundays In My City

…I don’t know when I’ll have time to blog again…..might be next week or next year…

I’m far too busy here in Helsinki right now packing and moving.

We sold one place and bought another.

I have a zillion papers to go trough and

either archive or destroy them…

Clothes, old this and that, what to take, what to throw away…

You know what kind of process moving is – alone?

A short winter day in Helsinki December 2010

Hi everyone!

I don’t have enough hours in my days! Too much to do.

Winter, I mean real winter, is here.

It’s dark in the morning,

it’s dark in the afternoon.

Temperature today

- 6 C > 21.2 F

windchill -12 C > 10.39 F

More snow tomorrow and Wednesday…

Forcast for Thursday:

- 12 C > 10.39 F

windchill -21 C > -5.8 F

bbbbrrrrr…..it’s going to be cold….

I had dinner with my mother last week,

here are a few pics…

Note: whatever the weather smoking outside!

restaurant töölönranta in English

We had menu Barcelona…yummy…plus espresso and 43 – of course!

The view from our table… Villa Kivi

“Completed in 1890, Villa Kivi was first used as a summer villa of the Helsinki upper class and Finland’s first president K. J. Ståhlberg, among others,

lodged there for some time.

Today, the villa is a meeting place for writers’ associations

and provides a peaceful oasis for writers to work.”

Read more here

Sorry about the bad quality of these pics but I shot them through the window…

The same house shot on Saturday from a bus…

More pics coming soon……

Check this! amazing picture of Villa Kivi by Mikko Muinonen

Did you have any difficulties to enter my site?

If yes – what happened?

Did you have redirecting problem? You came here but suddenly there was an ad where you were linked?

Several people have told me about ‘redirecting’ problem.

I need to know 3 things to solve the problem.

1. How/where from did you come to my site?

Did you click my name on your or someone else’s blog comment section?

Did you click my name in Linky tools list (SSS or SIMC)?

I need to know the source, where did you click to enter my blog otherwise it’s impossible to fix the problem!

2. If you try again so that you type my blog address with different browser – do you still have that problem?

3. Is my blog(s) only place where you experience this problem?

Most of the problems seem to be on my photo blog but a couple of bloggers have experience the problem here on my main blog too.

Please help me by answering those questions!

You can also email me via contact form (sidebar).

Thank you!

Are you a liar?

I’ve been a liar. Not often but sometimes. In real life less than in blogging life!

Do you lie saying like “that’s a brilliant photograph!” even if it’s bad?

I’ve done that. I didn’t want to but

didn’t find any other words at the moment… I felt sorry for her/him…

I felt bad and stupid after that…

Do you agree with  a blogger even if you disagree with him/her?

Usually I say what I think if asked.

Why do we, especially women, want to agree even if it’s not true? Why do we lie?

Would it be better just to leave a blog and say nothing?

Why do we support something which is against our own thoughts even if we would not agree in real life?

Why do we flatter?

Has somebody asked us to flatter each others?

Or is flattering easiest way to say something when there’s nothing else to say?

I’m curious. Tell me what you think!

Why do you lie?

Why is it difficult to be honest – or is it difficult?

Today weather was beautiful here in Helsinki!

I saw these Buddy Bears from a tram last week

but I had to see them closer…

“We have to get to know each other better …

… it makes us understand one another better,

trust each other more, and live together more peacefully.”

read more > United Buddy Bears tour and here

It was lunch time, not too many people…

Aren’t they cute!

Do you know which country this Buddy Bear is from?

Moroccan Buddy Bear