Meillä tänään/ In my town today:
Aurinko nousi / Sun rise: 09.19
Aurinko laski / Sun set: 14.50
Päivän pituus / Length of the day: 5 h 31 min
Tänään vietettiin talvipäivänseisausta kasvun merkeissä! Kulmilla hiirenvirna jo yrittää lumen läpi uutta kasvua tuupata samoin kuin leskenlehti. Uskomatonta!
Today we celebrated the winter solstice while examining new growth of weeds! Unbelievable!
Pensaat pukkaavat silmuja auki ja pienet hiirenkorvat kurkistelevat hurmehappomarjan versoista. Outoa!
The Barberries’ are developing new leafs as well. This is strange!
Näyttää siis siltä että on tullut kesä talven keskelle!
Well, did summer come?
Well, did summer come now, to the middle of winter?
And should we also make a nest for the little birds?
The spruce has already started to bloom in candles,
maybe the dark nights of winter are illuminated like this.
And even the old grows younger like a child, to play,
and a hunchback straightens, everybody is so delighted.
And good, warm, tender, is everybody’s mind,
oh if a person, had a Christmas for an eternity!
(A Traditional Finnish Christmas Song)
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