Travelog post for: Josie

Hyvää iltaa, äiti! (Good evening, mother!) 

How is your autumn going?
Ours is going wetly and deliciously and colorfully, meaning it is raining like hell, there is wonderful apples and beautiful autumn foliage. 


Here we are in the yard of our little cottage, enjoying the wonderful blessing of the trees. 



After eating a month only berries and mushrooms in the forest the apples are a very wellcome variation.

..Ok ok  , we have also been eating lots of buns and omelettes, salads and soups, liquorice and icecream. It was Henna who demanded me to add those things, otherwise you would think she´s  starving me. 



Our method of picking the apples is to climb to jump over them until they fall.
Of course, the more we eat apples, the less we need to jump to make them fall. 



When the sun shines (rarely) there is a wonderful sweet smell under the apple trees. 

We always leave the fallen apples for wild animals, and there is lots of thrushes, hares, squirrels and deers coming to eat them.
Sometimes the apples have already started to ferment, and then they are even more popular. It seems some of the animals like to be drunk. 



Yesterday it was a more bright day, and we went for a driwe with Hennas friend.
We were reading the map and choosing the route, favouring as small and less-used roads as possible. 
Of course on those roads it is not possible to driwe very fast, but that´s just the idea - we have time to see so much more, and many interesting, remote nooks.



Every now and then we stopped on a promising spot, and Henna and her friend run around searching signs of possible stone age dwelling sites.
Meanwhile we were just enjoying the new landscapes and searching for beautiful stones and such. 



We found many! 

What odd landscape we encountered after walking trough a small forest area!



We were standing on an esker, formed by a stream which flowed within the huge glacier during ice age.  After the retaining ice walls melted away, stream deposits remained as a long winding ridge ( huh? What do you mean I copied this from Wikipedia?) 
Now there was a huge sandpit and heaps which were formed of stones of certain sizes - small stones on one heap, bigger stones on the next one, even bigger on the third and so on.Here is the machine which is separating the stones according to the size.



On the other side of the sandpit we found an old wooden skijump hill. 
Of course we had to climb up there!



There was lots of stairs to climb, but we had even more will to see the views from the top of the tower. 



And the view was certainly worth of climbing! 



Would you like to jumps from here with skis, mom? 
I would! Or maybe with a sleigh.. 



After admiring the views enough we came back down.
We met a local guy who told us that the topmost part of the tower was burn two years ago because some young people had been there having a barbeque party. 



The little red building is where the jury of the skijumping competitions is sitting and announcing their marks for the jumpers. 

The jumphill is still in use. Many young jumpers start their practise here, before moving to the bigger hills in Lahti.




We continued our trip, and stopped to walk along the shores of this beautiful small lake.
Tuli hopped into the water again, what else. Frogs.. 



But she carried me too on her back across the water, and I was sitting, just like a frog, on a waterlily leaf. Tuli said I would make a good frog. 


And she shared a karjalanpiirakka with me, nom nom! 



Then we just sat there, watching the sun going down, silenced by the beauty of it. 

I wish you see some beautiful sunsets too!
A warm embrace from your little Josie