by December sunrise
7:40 am
8:00 am
First day of the last month of the year and I’m far too busy! This week I’ve done some gardening, cleaned the house, had an overnight guest, and spent this day preparing prints for our print sale, and I’m exhausted. I slept in this morning and missed this glorious sunrise burning through the fog, but husband captured it. Just the thing to prettify this page and say hello to a new month!
December 1, 2011 in Being an Artist, Home by Marja-Leena
Just those glorious landscapes is what I miss from Westcoast of America.
It might be that I had the possibility to enjoy something similar if I lived in archipelago here. But there are glimpses of the small sea and bays here too.
Light is never same.
I forgot to tell, that here, 63°6’1″ N and 21°37’37”, on exact location of me being, is clear sky and +6 C and 2nd December.
No, not the first time, but actually a little rare…
Glorious, and what a difference between the first and second. Amazing how it just keeps coming back and doing this stuff, day in day out.
Good luck with the print sale.
Ripsa, I remember the Vaasa area as very pretty though we didn’t see too much of the sea. The light in the summer nights is so wonderful. We went for a long walk in the woods one evening with my aunt Eeva and did not realize that it was nearing midnight and the sun was still above the horizon! That makes up for the dark short winter days. The snow is late there this year, I read, so once it arrives it will be brighter. Here the rainy season is dark. Our temperatures are similar this week, with a touch of frost at night when it is clear.
Lucy, yes. Imagine if we were living in the early cave days at this time of year and worrying about the sun’s dwindling in the sky as we near the winter solstice.
Good work, sun and husband!
Really love that smoldery look in the second one…
When I lived on the Canadian border, I used to see wonderful skies all the time–lots of northern lights, too. Nothing like driving along and having them blossom, and then getting out to stand knee-deep in a snowy field with your head cocked and eyes dazzled.
Yankeedom has its perks. But I have only seen the northern lights once in Cooperstown–pale moving wands, almost white, over the lake one January.
Happy December, Marja-Leena, and thanks (to both of you) for these glorious sunrise photographs. What a pretty spot you live in!
Marly, thanks! I’ve been surprised before to learn that the northern lights can be seen in the northeast US. I miss the northern lights here but we did see them often when we lived in northeast BC for the first several years of our marriage, and on the prairies, including after our wedding, on the way to the honeymoon cottage – a treasured memory, naturally.
Beth, thank you! Yes, we are indeed very fortunate in finding this spot in the world to live in!
I’m glad to see the beautiful sunrise pictures were waiting for you as you got some well deserved extra sleep. We’re on the wrong side of our building to see the sunrise over the sea but it’s nice too having afternoon sun and lovely sunsets. I hope when we find a more permanent place we’ll be able to have some of both.
I hope your sales go well.
So much change in a mere 20 minutes …
Susan, good that you enjoy sunsets over the sea! We miss them here though sometimes we see some glorious skies above the hills behind us. It’s sometimes hard to get both when you live near mountains. Thanks, I hope the sales do well for everyone.
rouchswalwe, yes, isn’t it amazing?!
Sunrises like sunsets are difficult to photograph, but few I have seen come across as well as these.
Joe, that is so true. I did not even have to make any adjustments to these, except for re-sizing for the web.
Nothing’s more exhausting than preparing for those holiday sales, as my potter friends can attest.
I hope the season is a warm one for you in spite of the Vancouver fog.
Hattie, thanks! We are enjoying the present weather of mostly clear and sunny days and light frosts at night with some fog which burns away in the morning. Much nicer than rain, and we were able to get most of the leaves raked up (still more falling) and to get our outdoor holiday lights up! Now I’m hoping for a white Christmas.
You can see them all through the “north country” region of New York–lots of fairly bright and pink particularly. Some palish colors. I’ve seen them be very colorful as far south as Lake Placid.
Marly, that is so amazing and wonderful for you. I did not know they could be seen so far south. I wonder if BC’s mountainous terrain prevents seeing them in the southern half. The wide open flat prairies were a great theater for them.
gorgeous, i miss those mornings looking at mountains and sea. x
Elisa, thanks, I would too if I had to leave this spot.
Am not very proficient in this tech communication…loved what i searched for re-old Finnish jewellery….want to make jewellery that reminds and honours my beginnings…Karjala….loved your site that showed the very old of who we are….how could i craft that now…..we left Finland in 1957 – Äiti, Isä, my brother & i…..Isä fought the russians……he and Äiti both were evacuated from Karjala when war began….they did not know each other then….families dispersed…some fallen in the war….everyone lost some of something precious….i want to make old Karjala koruja….Kurkijoki and Juttuoja apparently do not exist anymore….nor Viipuri…..would love to learn how to craft beauty and courage into jewellery that you posted on your site…even as my Äiti and Isä are displaced and exiled so are we all……anyway, thank you for photo of necklaces and brooch….god bless and wish you well in all your good endeavours…..love t
Tarja! I am glad you found things of interest here, Finnish things, history, culture. I know many of the Karelians and their history, so sad. My father and uncles were in that war too.
One of my motivations for this blog has been to research some of my Finnish roots, going back as far as records show – where are we from? Like you I left Finland as a child with my parents. Do you still speak, read and write in Finnish? I do, but it is “rusty”.
I wish you luck in following your dream of making the Kalevala style jewelry, for the Kalevala is from Karjala/Karelia. Let me know how it goes.
PS. Here is that post about the old Finnish jewelry that you refer to. (Older blog entries have the comment function turned off.)