this has been a different summer not only has it been hot, with hardly any rain. The flowers all bloomed early the nature turned brownish. These are bigger observations. Personally this summer has been challenging, I was five weeks on a sick leave due to a split tendon and a ripped tendon, walking on crutches due to that now for eight weeks making it very hard to take photos unless I am sitting or have my cameraman handy by my side. I am trying to get back to the groove again.
Welcome August…Daisy is one of my favorite flowers, they represent summer to me and as a summer bride 30 years ago I even had them in my bouquet
two daisies
Daisy from the back
flower fly and daisies
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Picture from the past… if you scrolled this far 🙂
Ritva Sillanmäki Photography 
Hope you are doing better, Ritva. Torn tendon….ouch!
Yes Lois, Ouch… I am so hoping for a speedy recovery, but it does not look like it. Hope is good 🙂
Ugh. So sorry to hear this, Ritva. Take care.
I wish you a very speedy recovery, my friend. And, yes, here in the UK we are having similar weather, far too hot and humid, very tiring. And I love your wedding photos – wonderful! Adrian 🙂
Thanks Adrian, this has been a summer to remember in many ways. Thanks for scrolling down and the compliment 🙂 Aah, to be young again…not really
Yes, I’m not sure that – given the chance – that I would want to be young again – and the more so when I see the stresses and pressure that young people are now under here in the UK, with social media, celebrity culture, self-image and the like. Like you, I’m happy to be where I am now. 🙂
Not the way you want to be spending the summer! And not to be able to swim in this ‘helle’…I feel for you! But I hope you will be fully recovered soon.
I also love daisies – so simple yet so beautiful and cheerful.
Does your husband have his roots in Karelia, by any chance? He shares some resemblances to my husband’s family. Interesting 🙂
Hi, this has been a different summer, but I do love the warmth. and yes he has roots in Karelia, frim his mother side, but then again my roots from my fathers side are also there.
I guess many Finns have at least some relatives from that area. Both sides of my husband’s family can be traced back to Karelia but then they all ended up in the west.
Yes, the war was the reason why my father with his family had to leave. Where he was born in on the Russia side now.
How have you settled to this cold country :-), do you feel at home?
Haha, I’m starting to wonder why I came here to avoid the heat! But soon enough it will be my kind of weather. Looking forward to autumn 😊
Then again this might continue…