Red Christmas...?

We had a Red Christmas this year as you can see from the picture above.
Well, not really, the picture is taken in the afternoon at sunset last Sunday when the sun broke through the clouds as it stopped snowing. White balance set  on "clouds" and Ingela got exactly the colour shade of our surroundings at that very moment.

I'm not dreaming of a Christmas this white...

The picture is from a webcam overlooking a traffic circle here. The snow is pouring down at 11:35 am. And more is to come the next days.
Nuff said...
Hans

The shortest day of the year

Sunrise at 10:12 am
Sunset at 2:42 pm
Length of the day 4h 40 min
That is not much if you need to work by daylight :)
The sun is "shining" but it is -12 C outside in the middle of the day.
In the meantime we can enjoy our Christmas tree

Winter at last!

The winter finally hit us, the temperature has occasionally plunged down to -17 C since Monday morning, last night we got about 6 inches of snow and in the morning it was like this outside when I left for work at 7:30 AM:

View from our driveway down our street

Our house as seen from the street

Our miniature tree is doing well and growing... And it seems that the jar has grown too...

just kidding, this is another, bigger one, than the one shown some weeks ago!

Today 92 years ago...

...Finland declared its autonomy in the wake of the Russian revolution. Lenin had his hands full with the creation of the new Soviet Union and could not let Finland disturb his plans. He thought that once the Finns have calmed down and returned to normal, he will orchestrate a Finnish revolution with the help of the Russian solders that were still in Finland and reconnect it to the USSR, but that attempt came to a tragical end in the spring of 1918.
That is why we are flying the flag this day, December 6.