This cherry tree was a free gift from Tahvoset's Garden Shop when we had the ice-cream kiosk in Fiskars. This is the first year we have had a good crop of cherries but they are not ripe for eating yet.
Canada Geese. Noisy and they poop on our beach.
A baby heron perched, rather ridiculously, on an alder tree on the lake shore. Mum had gone off fishing and this little one sat and waited for some food.
Wild bee on the coriander. I have counted up to ten bees at a time on the coriander!
A white-tailed deer, on the back field around 10pm on Mid-summer's Day. Looking straight at me.
A crane - grus grus - on one of the Rosendal fields.
This little fella is a raccoon dog ("supikoira" in Finnish) and he wandered under our window while we were eating breakfast. He was looking for frogs in the ditches, we had toast.
Salmon soup on the beach this morning... 12 C - and more than cloudy.
It's not only the bees that enjoy feeding off the dandelions. This butterfly guzzled away at the nectar in this flower for ages.
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The Hereford herd at Koskis Manor Farm near Salo in southern Finland.
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A frosty morning 10 May 2015, around 5am, the lake looks almost frozen in the distance.
The river that flows down into Ovanträsk. A gurgling stream with clear water and mossy rounded rocks along the banks. Very pretty - why hadn't I ever walked over there before?!
A very, very old bridge that crosses the river that flows into our lake (Ovanträsk). There is no longer any trace of the road that crossed the bridge and continued up to Rosendal.
Fiskars village in October.
The five hives in Espoo. The really nasty hive is second from the right. As you can see, it has been impossible to do any weeding, strimming or pruning etc for a few weeks.
Grey Wagtail with a big lunch. We have dozens of wagtails in Pojo, and I imagine they are helping themselves to our bees as well.
April 20th, 2014 - Putting the jetty back into the water.
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