Secret Sanctuaries

 Kyllästyin sairasteluun ja päätin lähteä lenkille, miten paljon luonto onkaan jo herännyt ja ihmiset ovat alkaneet hääräillä pihoillaan ja parvekkeilla. Täällä keskustassa asuessani harvemmin pääsen nauttimaan antoisista metsäkävelyistä, joten tyytyminen on kortteliralliin!

Näin kesän ollessa lähellä, on ihana katsella mitä kaikkea kivaa ihmiset laittavat pihoilleen ja parvekkeilleen. Oma maisema ikkunoistani on melkoisen lannistava, erään kaupan varaston seinä, joten katselen aina mustankipeänä muiden ihania maisemia. Kaupunkimaisemakin voi olla kaunis kunhan avaa silmänsä katsomaan arkkitehtuuria, värejä, kulmia, koukeroita tai edes pientä pilkahdusta luonnon antimista.

 Suomi herää eloon yhdessä luonnon kanssa ja tässä pieniä maistiaisia joihin lenkilläni törmäsin.

I live in midtown and it is hard to get into real nature to take a walk so I have to settle walking around the blocks. Finland is very season oriented country - we sleep all winter and live at summer time. It is lovely to see how people wake up within the same cycle as nature. Suddenly you see life at balconies and backyards, flowers, furniture or even someone spending time out there! Every year at this time I become a backyard stalker! Its funny how you can imagine a life at those gardens and backyards, people living there and starting up their most vivid time of their year - summer.

Here are some pictures from my walk aroud the town

from these apartments you can admire small forest and rabbits that run all over the place - here is no pressure to decorate your balcony wiew, nature does it for you.

This hill was full of small white flowers and this backyard looked like a different world to step in

This arch has always enthralled me, behind it is a small table group and at midsommer its full of blooming flowers, shame about the road next to it..

This backyard is my ultimate favourite in Kuopio! It is so secret that not many people even notice it when passing by. Its unique style this north! This yard works in every season - this picture is not giving justise to it but if you are local or visiting here I challenge you to seek for it!

Kuopio used to be mainly beautiful woodhouses but because of war, time and the superidea of making Kuopio look like a showroom of everytype of architecture (I am referring to one spesific shoppingmall next to marketplace that looks like a mothership that landed there a decade a go), but there are a few pearls left!

Open your eyes to your everyday routes what have you missed just because of getting used to it?