Tag: forest

Forest Health

Landscapes, Nature

I often find peace and calmness in the forest, a great place to gather your thoughts. Have a spiritual moment 🙂

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Forest Health, is not only a Finnish luxury, I am sure it is recognized all over the world. Shinrin-yoku, as they call it in Japan, is a famous way of spending time in nature. Research has shown that people who practice forest bathing , exposure to forests and trees gets these benefits from it: 1. boosts the immune system 2. lowers blood pressure 3. reduces stress 4. improves mood 5. increases ability to focus, even in children with ADHD 6. accelerates recovery from surgery or illness 7. increases energy level 8. improves sleep

I went to a forest…

New Edits #4

Landscapes, Nature, Traveling British Columbia, CA

Mountains covered with snow in June was a beautiful sight in Vancouver, the beauty of the nature has left me a lasting impression.

Forest therapy

Landscapes
Forest therapy

This forest, hill behind our home is an easy place to escape to nature. We can see it from our house and watch the season change. At the moment I am waiting for the green to push through and brighten this place. I do like that there is so much evergreens here. Moss, pine trees, spruce. it is forest therapy just steps away. Happy Easter everyone, stay safe and take care.

Sunset

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

Beauty, majestic nature. Just beautiful, sunset at sequoia. All unedited photos 😀.

Before the thunderstorm

Landscapes, Photography

I was sitting in my backyard watching the clouds gather into the intense blue gray color. I took these just before the thunderstorm was above us.The temperature dropped three degrees in just s short while…got to love Finnish summer and the amazing 17 C degrees of warmth.

Grove

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

Midsummer celebrations are over and we are now officially losing light, but not to worry there is still plenty of it. Today I went to near grove woods and lakeside in Vols to take some photos of the beautiful greens we are surrounded with this time of the year.

Festival of Leaves 2018 ~6

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

Dawn from lingeringvisions has started a celebration of fall #Festival of Leaves  here is one more photo to this challenge.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

 

 

 

Autumn Vibes

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

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mushroom in a dark forest

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light in moss in Dark forest

reality in unkempt forest
Needle covered forest
light in the dark

Pine tree forest

Landscapes, Photography

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December 17

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

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Snow covered trees – so pretty and bright.

December #10

Landscapes, Photography

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it is all green and cloudy, but  wouldn’t this be lovely, I does not look to promising that we will have snow anytime soon if you look at the forecast . The theme of blue and white continues

walk continues

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

I love these crooked pine trees that the wind and weather has shaped.

the walk

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

As we arrived we had to walk through old woods, and rocky paths. As the wind mostly blows from the sea nearly all the trees lean towards inland. The first part of the walk is rather dark and this area has lots of fallen down spruce trees. They are left in the woods to decay as nature intended so the nature will continue to be as diverse as possible.

the path we take

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

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Walking in the primeval forest in Linlo Island in Kirkkonummi. The path we take leads us to very varied nature types. Here are few that we walked.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Dense

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

Here is my entry to WordPress weekly Photo Challenge

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Spruce forest

Landscapes, Nature, Photography

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I walked through the thick grown spruce forest, there were places hardly any light came through. But a glimmer of light surely brought life to the place

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October weekend in the country

Landscapes, Nature

The autumn has reached the point that this weekend we closed our summer home for this year. What a beautiful weekend it was, sunshine and nice temperatures. the sunset was amazing in its glory( an other post ) I took time to walk in the fields and document the colors.