Chinese Books

 

Long story short: 3 years ago I started learning Mandarin Chinese! :D I've learned over 1500 characters so far, and am almost done reading my first Chinese novel, Saye by Wu Zhe! To help me on this journey I bought two essentials: a Chinese cookbook and a huuuuge dictionary, both from AliExpress.

Harvests of 2022

 

This year's gardening didn't go as smoothly as I would have preferred (it was too hot and dry in summer), but we did manage to grow lots of food, so here are some of the things we had!

Radish from my own seeds.

Snowy December

 It snowed a loooot today, again :D 

Finally there's a chance of white xmas!!

Huge Insect Hotel in Espoo

 

Lidl Bemböle’s parking lot

Turuntie 207, 02740 Espoo

The Moon and Jupiter

Accidentally took a rather fancy photo of the Moon using field binoculars – no editing!

 

My attempt at photographing Jupiter was less successful…

Autumn Hydrangea

 

Visiting a Garden

 

Recently I had a chance to see a very lush garden!

Garden in July

 

Abraxas sylvata

Thank you, Rita, for identifying it for me! :D

Flowers Wild and Not – June 2022

Some of the flowers in our yard!