Euro language

A chuckle and a relief from flower photos... something I found at the bottom of my email inbox from three years ago when housecleaning...source unknown. Enjoy!     The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the... [Continue Reading...]

Get Out

Go here to see this fabulous award-winning short animation film with a stunning surprise ending. You will enjoy it! Found at Chris Tyrell's Blog. This gives me the opportunity to mention that Chris Tyrell is a well-known arts advocate... [Continue Reading...]

Gardener's Night Before Xmas

I have mixed feelings about the return of rains after two lovely weeks of frost and even a bit of snow, but this made me smile... A "garden version" of The Night Before Christmas: Twas the night before Christmas... [Continue Reading...]

sing your complaints

The Helsinki Complaints Choir at the stairs of the Lutheran Cathedral in Helsinki. Photo taken from the complaints choirs website The first time I heard of complaints choirs was over three years ago and later blogged about how amusing... [Continue Reading...]

February

February was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification... Historical names for February include the Anglo-Saxon terms Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) as well as Charlemagne's designation Hornung. In Finnish, the month is called... [Continue Reading...]

99 things to do

I rarely do memes any more but this looked like fun. The rules are simple: bold the things you've done. Explanations are optional. Fun is guaranteed. 1. Started my own blog (surprise!) 2. Slept under the stars (tried for... [Continue Reading...]

big green caterpillar

            On a recent walk around our neighbourhood, we spotted this brilliantly coloured BIG caterpillar moving slowly along the street. We'd never seen one like it. Husband picked it up gently with a leaf while I found... [Continue Reading...]

lovely links

Our Earth as Art, 3D Picasso's Guernica, International Rock-Flipping Day

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urban wildlife

        I had some excitement at the home front this afternoon. I was in the kitchen about to prepare some vegetables when I spotted some kind of bushy furry creature crawling along the garage roof. I couldn't believe my... [Continue Reading...]

wallpaper

A laugh for rock art aficionados... © Tundra. Scanned from Vancouver Sun, Dec. 29th, 2007 More from the archives here and here... [Continue Reading...]

no lifeguard

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elf academy

Have you ever wanted to be an elf? The Elf academy is being set up in Rovaniemi, Lapland where you can become a certified elf. This is the right place, after all it is the land of Santa and... [Continue Reading...]

giant datura

    We have a spot next to the front door where we keep a planter of seasonal flowers. This past spring we bought a tall blue glazed ceramic pot to replace the ancient rotting wood one. Filling the tall... [Continue Reading...]

visualizer

Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings made me think of the wonderful hypnotic dancing colours, lines, dots, shapes that the 'visualizer' produces on this screen in response to music played in iTunes on my Mac.

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fireworks

Happy July 4th to my American readers! Enjoy the fireworks A hot screensaver for Macs Wish I'd found it for Canada Day.... [Continue Reading...]

peachfuzz visits

There was a lot of commotion going on in the solarium this morning though it sounded like birds on the roof. Meet our latest visitor to our solarium - Peachfuzz - who thought maybe it was too cold outside. He... [Continue Reading...]

computer art

Got a little time? Get a cup of your favourite brew and a biscotti and relax with these entertaining though time-consuming links that are all about using the computer to create art. 1. Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings. "... [Continue Reading...]

winter story 2006

I'm very proud to share my grand-daughter Lael's 4th annual Winter Story, done with a little help from mommy and daddy, of course. It's now on a special blog so you can see the past winter stories as well,... [Continue Reading...]

testing your memory

A thorough test of your memory has begun!

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Finnish knitting lesson

(Still from The Last Knit by annekeAnna) Talk about obsessive-compulsive, this animation is extremely well-done and hilarious. Thanks to my husband for finding our evening's laugh medicine. Enjoy!... [Continue Reading...]

weekend joys

We had a gorgeous sunny day yesterday, perfect for a family gathering to celebrate a daughter's birthday. Today is a fall day with rain, the house is quiet and I'm catching up with a bit of blog reading before... [Continue Reading...]

best gift

A gift suggestion list in this morning's spam mail

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Helvetica, a film

Helvetica "is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way... [Continue Reading...]

caught in a web

A long and mighty battle between these two insects outside a window - photos by my husband

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slide show: aurora borealis

Ooh, there's a truly outstanding and beautiful slide show of the Aurora Borealis at Virtual Finland (from where I've borrowed this photo)! "Finland is a leader in the study of the Aurora Borealis, the majestic display of colours that... [Continue Reading...]

weird habits meme

This meme has been going around many Finnish blogs and now I've been tagged by SIKURI (written by a Finnish-American blogger and writer, formerly sananlaskija). I'll do mine in English to open the field since so many Finns that I... [Continue Reading...]

humour

© Bizarro.com - scanned from Vancouver Sun Nov.26.2005 A little message to yours truly and her obsession with rock art?... [Continue Reading...]

flash drawing

You must watch this fascinating animated drawing of a skeleton coming to life! It's been making the blog rounds, but I saw it first at Zeke's Gallery. As Chris said, it's "wicked cool". The source appears to be a... [Continue Reading...]

first frost

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thinker quiz

What kind of thinker are you? Find out through a Quiz from BBC. I did and here's my result. You are a Spatial Thinker Spatial Thinkers: • Tend to think in pictures, and can develop good mental models of the... [Continue Reading...]

modern art

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Happy 80th

Big Happy 80th Birthday Wishes to Thoroughly Modern Millie Garfield! Millie shows us how much fun she's having in life, even blogging at My Mom's Blog. Congratulations and have a wonderful day of celebration, Millie, and many more happy... [Continue Reading...]

good links

Here's a small collections of links I've been saving to share for your reading pleasure: 1. More about Smithson at Print Australia and Modern Art Notes 2. As a lover of rock art and earth art, I was excited to... [Continue Reading...]

falling

I'm having a very busy weekend with no time to blog, but in the meantime, my dear readers looking for some Sunday entertainment, go have a look at this site. (If she gets stuck, you can help her along with... [Continue Reading...]