Before I forget, let’s dive into the forest that brings the tropics to the north…
Where am I? It feels like somewhere else. Somewhere with warm coral colors and bright surprises around the corner.Two little squirrels appear. They munch away quickly, as if someone might steal their treat at any moment.
The beauty is timeless in this wonderful little part of a forest… in the middle of nowhere. I wake up. Spring is over, and so is summer. The leaves have lost their vibrancy and are turning yellow. This morning, I saw the first one that was already half yellow, half gone. Autumn is here.This Friday, join me for the Friendly Friday photo challenge, which I will continue co-hosting with Amanda after my little summer break. Right now, the challenge is running at Amanda’s blog with the current theme sunrise.
Enjoy your week!
51 replies on “Enchanted Forest”
My goodness, so beautiful! Takes me back to the rainforest where I did my dissertation; I can almost smell the morning mists. 🥰
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Ah, lovely to hear you see a rainforest here too! That’s definitely what I was thinking of! 🤗
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Beautiful flowers
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Thank you!!
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The Rhododendron park of Haaga is such a beautiful place!
Birch trees are the first ones to throw the towel to the ground. They just don’t tolerate these too warm and dry summers. My garden is so dry the soil dusts, everything would be dead without irrigation.
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I wondered how the Birch trees are coping with the summer heatwaves.
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Not well, I´m afraid. On a sunny and windy day they evaporate huge amounts of water through their leaves…
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Andthat makes them wilt/ droop or is it deadly to them?
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Johanna can answer that for you, I wouldn’t know. To me, the rowans in Helsinki look great. Hubby just took pictures of them during the weekend because they have massive bunches of berries (which birds snack on) and they looked so bountiful and red.
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Can you eat Rowanberries?
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Not as far as I know!
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Looking at these replies in my comments section, their order has gone berserk! 🤣
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Yes it is very strange
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Yes drought causes it, but its seldom fatal to resilient birches.
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Well it’s raining right now in Helsinki, as we speak 😁
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We are still waiting here in Kauniainen….
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That is a shame. Such picturesque trees.
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We didn’t really have a heatwave in the sense that you guys do, Amanda 🤣 Two days of 30C and a week of a pleasant 25-27C. Right now it’s 20C and feeling quite chilly, 10C in the morning. But maybe you, Johanna, spent your summer somewhere warmer than Helsinki with our constant sea breeze? I hear it gets warmer if you go even just a bit inland.
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I have mostly been in the middle of Espoo. Here the temperature is always few degrees warmer than Helsinki downtown. Just few drops of rain we have had, the soil under big trees has not even got wet in the whole summer. Just today saw dying rowans – the rain comes too late. If it comes…. I´m truly waiting for it.
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I heard the word ‘heatwave’ bandied about in the northern news, but everything is relative to the usual climatic range folks are used to. I still remember feeling a mild shock of surprise when the public street thermometer in the town square in Copenhagen did not display a range for temperatures higher than 27 degrees. That mesmerized me so that I think I took several photos of it – way back in 2004. It might need an extension of climate change continues.
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Yikes! Let’s hope for no dramatic changes. And yes, the definition of ”heat” is a cultural thing. Quite interesting, actually! 😊 Over here, there’s a word for warm weather which is used like the word heat, there is no direct translation but according to wikipedia, the temperature where it starts is 25C.
According to a Norwegian blogger (Isabelle), their heatwave lasted much longer than ours. The one in Central Europe didn’t quite reach us.
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Yes that park was such a nice visit!
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It is amazing that change.. even with rain the grass up the mountains has lost that beautiful green.. 😉
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It happens s quickly, too!
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I look forward to you coming back on board, Snow. Manja has done a wonderful job and we were lucky to have her lend a hand. Are you well rested?
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Manja was a gem!!! 🤗 I’m feeling much better and quite happy to be back to blogging. My tan is fading but it’s too cold for me to suntan anymore so it would fade anyway. I was lucky to have my holiday before it started getting chilly. (The wind makes a big difference: if it stops, it can feel nice and warm.)
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That darn wind – so right. We have just been at the beach and even here on our beautiful winter days of 22 degrees, if the wind was blowing, it wasn’t pleasant on the beach. The temperature dropped down to 15 degrees at times with wind gusts, I think. The funny thing is 15 degrees here feels so much colder than 15 degrees in Scandinavia. I don’t get it.
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Hahah! Also, 15 degrees feels colder in the autumn than in spring 🤣
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Hmm. Interesting.
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I remember seeing photos from here on Instagram posted by my friends living in Helsinki. Is it a park that the city built ? It looks amazing, especially because it’s in a forest.
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I’m not sure how it started. Its surroundings weren’t that charming and it’s a bit hard to get there but once there, the surprise is pleasant! I saw quite a lot of instagrammers, some in wedding gowns, no less! 😊
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Hello.
I have not had time to visit The Rhododendron park of Haaga. Seems to be fantastic! Thank You remembering me this gorgeous park. Until now I have visited more modest in Oulu and Mikkeli. We had a garden and we loved our Rhododendrons:
Rhododendrons in our garden
Have wonderful day!
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Thanks Matti for joining in! 😊 I do recommend visiting the park, just check in advance that they are blooming right then. I wish I had a garden with rhododendrons! I’ll check out your post soon. Have a bright and sunny day!
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What a beautiful park. The flowers are gorgeous. Reminded me of where I used to live in Washington State. Rhodies grew wild in the forests there and were very popular in most people’s gardens. The town I lived in even had an annual Rhododendron Festival, which usually took place during the peak blooming period.
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Ah, a festival, sounds good! We don’t have any of that (yet). A while ago, I saw on some blog pictures of a lemon festival in Southern France, it looked pretty amazing… Maybe one day…
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Here in the U.S. most towns have at least one festival a year. Some are very entertaining, some just weird! A lemon festival sounds like it could be fun though.
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Such a beautiful park, Snowy. I miss having separate seasons. Florida always seems to be the same.
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Thanks! Well, mostly it’s the same here too: grey and around 10C all year round 🤣 Well, we did have quite a bit of sun this summer, I must admit, though it wasn’t always warm
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What a colorful post, Snow!! Are those photos from a botanic garden in Helsinki? That would be the place I’d go when the weather is cold and grey…
So, the rukka has arrived to Finland? When I visited Lapland in March I read it’s one of the best seasons: colorful forests, wildlife that isn’t still hibernating, auroras and without mosquitos and other blood suckling insects… sounds like a dream!!! I’d love to visit Finland during autumn… but I guess that for someone living there, finding early signs of autumn in August can be a bit depressing.
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Yes, a bit disheartening to know that elsewhere summer continues and here it’s starting to fade out. But these are just early signs, no real fall colors yet. I’d love to visit Lapland during ”ruska” too 😊
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gorgeous!
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Thanks!
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It sure does look enchanted .. such a beautiful place to visit
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Thanks Julie, it was! 🤗
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wonderful shots and colours!
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Thanks Andy!
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Thank you for sharing it…
That green single leaf pic- we used to play with that leaf during my childhood..Hope the leaf back side havesomething like a white powdered substance.. 🙂
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Oh really? What tree is it from? I’m embarrassingly bad at these things!
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Actually its something similar to creepers in our region..sorry don’t know its name exactly..
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If winter is here, can spring be far behind…
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I hope not! 😊
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