-15°C
Finally we have real winter weather, really cold weather. It is so nice after a year again feel freezing wind on your face, all problems when you are trying to take photos while wearing so much clothes that you just cannot handle camera properly... But it is always so worth of it, the photos are always just so amazing...
Small city photographing
It has been a long time since last time I have just taking my camera with me and just left to somewhere. Way too long... But yesterday I got good enough reason just left Tampere and I ended up in Valkeakoski bus station with my camera; that was my first visit to that city and it was interesting place. There was not so much anything but somehow it felt nice little city after all. But I found it really interesting how all finnish smaller cities that I have been somehow seems so similar, buildings are little bit same looking and same kind and the spirit you get when walking there for the very first time is quite same. They all seems so peaceful nice small cities 
I really should get out from Tampere more often - not just for some nice photos but for some nice experiences too. Specially if they all could be as great and nice as yesterday was... 
Sports were in really big part of Valkeakoski, there was football stadiums everywhere, only the size changed from smaller ones to that big one (where the lightning hit one player few years ago...). The sports seemed to be though the only thing that was bringing maybe some tourist to there, I somehow suspect that it is not so big tourist place...
What would be my photo traveling without the photo from the sunset. This time I was watching sunset on the lake, sitting on the shore and looking over the frozen surface of the lake. The snow on the ice was full of small sparkles of ice and while watching the sunset it was possible to see rainbow on the ice.
First snow
We got finally our first real snowing on friday. On thursday night we got some snow already but it wasn't until friday evening when we got what I have been waiting for - the real snowing. When the air is nothing but falling snowflakes, it is dark, little bit windy and all you can see is snowflakes flickering in the street lights.
It is weird how I always forget during the other seasons - during the summer how I always miss that view. But then when first snowflake is slowly floating towards the ground - it all just comes back to my mind. All the reasons why I still think that winter is the best season. And the best part is when you are on your bicycle and trying to not to fall down... It is not so easy task to do when you have still your old summer tires on the bike... But it was fun
Spring?
At the moment weather here in Finland is a little bit weird, at least I feel so. Winter hasn't been so great, a little bit snow but there has been no really cold days at all. And now we are living March which I think as a quite spring month already. I think and like that in March the sun should shine and it should already be nice and warm but with snow still in the ground. But what we have in this year? Snowfall after snowfall. It has been snowing more than in the real winter (i.e. in January or February). It looks more winter than in January. Just weird...
Ski track
One of the last photos from ski tracks with snow. I guess that snow will melt quite soon, also from ski tracks.
Correct path?
When I was coming home today I noticed that something was different. Somehow I had a feeling that I am somewhere that I have never been before...
Some clever plough man decided to go a little bit easier and made path quite straight and the result, we have path going in the middle of area that is growing graas in the summertime. And path lamps are just a few meters off the path...
Snowy weather
Well, it decided that it is winter again. Yesterday we had almost none at all snow in the ground and today, it has been snowing all day. Now the snowing has ended but we have once again very winter-like weather.
This winter has been very weird, usually we have snow from late December to March but in this year we had few times a little bit of snow in the ground but almost every time it has been melted in the next few days. And so it will be this time also.
I would like to have cold weather and snow when it supposed to be winter but now, when it already started to promise a little bit of spring, it is too late now. No more snow, I would like to have a nice warm spring now already. And change my stubbed tires to normal tires. And take my better bicycle out from winter storage and start cycle more. And just enjoy nice warm spring days.
Winter morning
Mornings in the winter are just great. The sunrise, when everything is lighten by red and gold, it is just simply beautiful. Only if here is some snow in the ground...
Finally winter
Winter has finally came to Finland, this week temperature has been below 0°C all the time and the ground looks white. There is still too little snow in the ground but maybe we will get a it more in this winter. At least I hope so.
This week was also first week when there was ice on roads so I changed my studded tires on my bicycle on Monday. So it is officially a winter time now
