Woke up at 6am...

I woke up to a beautifull summer Sunday morning, saw morning mist outside and took a walk with the camera - Pihlajarinne at around 6-7 am on Sunday morning ... things look different when you just take the effort of actually looking at them instead of just looking.
I did not know that strawberry fields scent so strongly - very nice !


This year seems to be the year of rasberry - massive amounts of rasberries growing in our yard.

PDBL...

Pihtipudas Down By the Laituri .... I took about a hundred pics pretty much from the same position. Just does the trick for me.


















This year I noted that after some years of being mentally away from beeing a summer cottage person I have become a devoted one again. It seems to be the only place I'm truly on summer holiday without doing anything to be on summer holiday.

Google and IRC-Galleria

Our mökki "of course" does not have an Internet connection (no fixed phoneline, no DSL, no Internet). I did take my laptop occasionally out mostly to download pictures from camera to PC. I used quite some effort to explain that laptop does not equal an Internet connection. It seems to be actually pretty difficult for the kids of today to understand that there can be such thing as a computer without Internet ?
Well anyway one evening I connected laptop to the net over my mobile phone (btw, Nokia's PC Suite totally rocks nowadays - very easy and reliable... real plug'n'play stuff) and the guys went immeaditly "HEY - you do have a net there !!!", " .... I need to read my IRC-Galleria comments! I haven't done it for an eternity..." (=a week), "I want to go Google!". IRC-Galleria needs I knew of but Go Google ?

I use basically google to search - Vili says he and his mates go to Google to "hang around and do stuff". Google is not a search engine anymore for today's kids but a place/site to hang around just like IRC-Galleria ?

Blues Mäysti #2...

We had Blues Mäysti revival #2 in Oulu. It was the long planned 40 year birthday party for most of us and for most of us it was more or less +/-1...2 years late. Pekka and Aija were the heros who finally did it all - got us all going, booked the place, send invitations, organised the food... well, all of it to be short. Had lots of fun playing and most of all meeting old friends.


Vesku's adorable son was beeing a roudie before the gig - he kept repeating "Millon se toovi töähtää... kohta se toovi töähtää" (rouhgly "When does to horn toot... soon the horn toots" in English). I thought I'll make him a favour and took my sax out, told him that "No minäpä täräytän torvea sinulle..." ("I'll toot the horn for you..") which caused an immeadite panic in him - can't really blame him since it was me who was going to toot ;o)

Valtteri got also professional lession to sound controls and mixing during the gig which he greatly enjoyed and will remember I sure.