From yesterdays walkies in the forest behind Mum's neighbourhood.
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@sinituulia wow, it’s gorgeous. Looks like the upper peninsula of Michigan in the winter. Lots of folks descended from the Finnish diaspora live there too!
@lerxst It's been very very pretty! It's not always as cold for as many weeks in a row (probably more like a month or more at this point?) and it's been more like the winters I remember from when I was a kid.
A lot of people from here moved there exactly because they were told they'd be familiar with the weather and how it would look!
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@weezmgk In a couple of weeks the sunlight is presumably going to be able to melt just the top layer of the snow, making it crunchy.
@sinituulia When I lived in the middle of the US (30 yrs ago!) I used to love crunchy fresh snow, had to be quite cold for the midwest, about -10C and below. https://www.tiktok.com/@perrinebridge/video/7046915455281515823
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@sinituulia When I lived in the middle of the US (30 yrs ago!) I used to love crunchy fresh snow, had to be quite cold for the midwest, about -10C and below. https://www.tiktok.com/@perrinebridge/video/7046915455281515823
@weezmgk Trying to open a TikTok link has gotten even more horrid than it used to be, I'd have had to close five different boxes begging for my data and a GDPR notice/warning about where the data goes and how it's stored, so I closed the tab...
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@lerxst It's been very very pretty! It's not always as cold for as many weeks in a row (probably more like a month or more at this point?) and it's been more like the winters I remember from when I was a kid.
A lot of people from here moved there exactly because they were told they'd be familiar with the weather and how it would look!
@sinituulia I just moved back to Michigan last year after not living here for a very long time. I am however a “troll”, or from the lower peninsula (because we live under the bridge!
). There’s a lot of (mostly) good-natured rivalry between the two peninsulas. I love them both though. I love the beaches here, winter or summer. It’s kind of wild seeing fresh water as far as the eye can see. -
@weezmgk Trying to open a TikTok link has gotten even more horrid than it used to be, I'd have had to close five different boxes begging for my data and a GDPR notice/warning about where the data goes and how it's stored, so I closed the tab...
@sinituulia oh no, I'm sorry!
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@sinituulia oh no, I'm sorry!
@sinituulia this should work without TikToking you so hard
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@sinituulia I just moved back to Michigan last year after not living here for a very long time. I am however a “troll”, or from the lower peninsula (because we live under the bridge!
). There’s a lot of (mostly) good-natured rivalry between the two peninsulas. I love them both though. I love the beaches here, winter or summer. It’s kind of wild seeing fresh water as far as the eye can see.@sinituulia we had a fairly cold January (down to about -20 C, -40 to -50 with wind chill) but it’s been much milder this month. We might even hit 15 C this week though it’s supposed to cool back down next weekend, but only to around -5 to 0. After last month that’s practically short sleeves weather!
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@sinituulia I just moved back to Michigan last year after not living here for a very long time. I am however a “troll”, or from the lower peninsula (because we live under the bridge!
). There’s a lot of (mostly) good-natured rivalry between the two peninsulas. I love them both though. I love the beaches here, winter or summer. It’s kind of wild seeing fresh water as far as the eye can see.@lerxst Finland is the "land of a thousand lakes" even though there are apparently some 168 000 if you only count the slightly larger ones, so while the lakes are not usually immense, they're absolutely everywhere! I don't think I've ever seen a lake that I couldn't see the other side of if the sprinklings of islands didn't already block the line of sight...
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@sinituulia we had a fairly cold January (down to about -20 C, -40 to -50 with wind chill) but it’s been much milder this month. We might even hit 15 C this week though it’s supposed to cool back down next weekend, but only to around -5 to 0. After last month that’s practically short sleeves weather!
@lerxst There's been some -40C this year, up north, but it's been consistently quite cold (-20C to -30C) for so long that the energy costs have gotten higher than they should be!
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@sinituulia this should work without TikToking you so hard
@weezmgk Oh yes, winter sounds! (Thank you for sparing all of my cookies!)
One marked difference to Finland: There's no mountains anywhere, and even the highest fells are like dinky little baby mountains, after the Ice Ages scraped the mountain ranges into little rock nubbins
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Alt text typed up in a poetic haze of being in the middle of my morning coffee, with a cat on my lap and some nice swing jazz playing. What are words?
One more, why not. I don't think it's very special as a photo, but it is a very quintessential view of a normal little forest in Finland, and thus perhaps of some interest.
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One more, why not. I don't think it's very special as a photo, but it is a very quintessential view of a normal little forest in Finland, and thus perhaps of some interest.
There's this Finnish thing, where you might gaze upon the most beautiful pool of water in the deepest of wild, untouched Lapland, fresh water glittering in the sunlight and teeming with fish, its shores lush with berries and forage, and when a cartographer from the south comes in and asks you what it's called, to put it on a map, you say it's "Onpahanvaanlampi" or "well it's a pond, innit" in Finnish, because it is just a pond, millions like it...
I watched a video once, where an immigrant was like "Fucking STOP it, Finns, it's wonderful! What's wrong with you!" because apparently we're just. Not suitably appreciative?
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There's this Finnish thing, where you might gaze upon the most beautiful pool of water in the deepest of wild, untouched Lapland, fresh water glittering in the sunlight and teeming with fish, its shores lush with berries and forage, and when a cartographer from the south comes in and asks you what it's called, to put it on a map, you say it's "Onpahanvaanlampi" or "well it's a pond, innit" in Finnish, because it is just a pond, millions like it...
I watched a video once, where an immigrant was like "Fucking STOP it, Finns, it's wonderful! What's wrong with you!" because apparently we're just. Not suitably appreciative?
@sinituulia I think it applies to a lot of countries though. You don't appreciate the beauty of what you see every day because it's just... normal to you.
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There's this Finnish thing, where you might gaze upon the most beautiful pool of water in the deepest of wild, untouched Lapland, fresh water glittering in the sunlight and teeming with fish, its shores lush with berries and forage, and when a cartographer from the south comes in and asks you what it's called, to put it on a map, you say it's "Onpahanvaanlampi" or "well it's a pond, innit" in Finnish, because it is just a pond, millions like it...
I watched a video once, where an immigrant was like "Fucking STOP it, Finns, it's wonderful! What's wrong with you!" because apparently we're just. Not suitably appreciative?
@sinituulia You got used to it
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@sinituulia I think it applies to a lot of countries though. You don't appreciate the beauty of what you see every day because it's just... normal to you.
@missmelanieh True! But we also culturally generally don't talk positively about anything, unless we're boasting to a neighbouring town or something, to show them up... It's in very limited circumstances where you're "allowed" to consider anything of yours special or wonderful!
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@missmelanieh True! But we also culturally generally don't talk positively about anything, unless we're boasting to a neighbouring town or something, to show them up... It's in very limited circumstances where you're "allowed" to consider anything of yours special or wonderful!
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Sounds rather British - we have a knack for understating things.@missmelanieh It's very similar, yeah. We do love British humour, too, all the old classics like Faulty Towers, Jeeves and Wooster, and Keeping Up Appearances and such have always been wildly popular. I haven't owned a TV in almost 20 years so I don't know what people watch now, but... It's something we innately get and enjoy
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@missmelanieh It's very similar, yeah. We do love British humour, too, all the old classics like Faulty Towers, Jeeves and Wooster, and Keeping Up Appearances and such have always been wildly popular. I haven't owned a TV in almost 20 years so I don't know what people watch now, but... It's something we innately get and enjoy
@sinituulia Explains why I feel an affinity with Finland as well. There is just something familiar about the way we seem to think about things. I really need to visit at point.
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@sinituulia Explains why I feel an affinity with Finland as well. There is just something familiar about the way we seem to think about things. I really need to visit at point.
@missmelanieh Very Finnish knee jerk reaction I had: "Ah, well, I don't know if there's anything to see or do here, might not be worth so much hassle..."
Yeah. Anyway. A lot of people seem to enjoy it here! Maybe eventually they'll even manage to get that continental Europe train connection going, like they've been talking about for decades... Just try not to come here during the the loska season, when the snow melts and it's miserable!
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@weezmgk Oh yes, winter sounds! (Thank you for sparing all of my cookies!)
One marked difference to Finland: There's no mountains anywhere, and even the highest fells are like dinky little baby mountains, after the Ice Ages scraped the mountain ranges into little rock nubbins
@sinituulia the midwest US is also a glacial plain, at least between the Rocky Mountains and Appalachian chain. I've seen snow twice since coming to Australia in 1996. Once was able to build a snowman. It melted an hour later. Snow didn't crunch!
I would visit snow occasionally- it can be lovely as you showed in Finland- but I am ok without slush that squishes into my shoes!
