Taru-Maija on the way to summer cottage for Midsummer Holiday.
Nadi, her handsome Tartar husband.
We have arrived at summer cottage -- here is the view from the cottage to the lake.
Here is the view from the sauna/lakeshore to the cottage at the top. As you can see, there are lots of trees, mossy boulders, and other such growing things.
This is called the "Midsummer Rose" because it always blooms at midsummer. There are these rose bushes all over the place, and, predictably -- in bloom!
Near the campground is this historical village -- lots of these wooden windmills dotted the horizon in days gone by. The Finns are preserving as many of them as they can. Wood was the building material of choice, with good reason....
At the campground where we have gone (now twice) for celebration, wooden statues are all over the place -- some painted,some not -- and there is an annual contest for the best one.
This is 2011 first prize winner. They must be done within a certain time frame, from a single piece of wood, and using only a chain saw. Amazing...
Local Finns roasting their own lenkke-makkara. We had ours waiting at home...
The bonfire starts...
See the tongues of flame licking at the sky? It looks much darker than it was, but I liked this version of the fire....
Two pseudo-Finns at Midsummer!
Kurt took us back to summer cottage via water -- there are so many lakes here you can't count them, and they often connect to each other.
Colorful rowing boats along the way -- every summer cottage has at least one rowing boat -- for fishing in the lakes with either a cage or a net.
Kurt's boat -- as we arrived at the cottage.
Taru-Maija and Tommy roast our l-m sausages for Midsummer.
We CELEBRATE at our cottage...Kurt, Nadi, Arie, and Tommy. Arie is T-M's sister, Kurt, her husband, and Tommy, her youngest son about to go into mandatory military service -- 9 months -- then on college.
Sunrise? Sunset? Who knows -- it is just a beautiful place to be at a beautiful time...
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