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February 23, 2016February 23, 2016outikimalainen Leave a comment

Sivustoa työstetään parhaillaan! Odotus palkitaan keväämmällä, kun kimalaiskeskeinen maailma avautuu hitaasti mutta vakaasti.

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I walk through the city. It's windy, the air feels crisp and freezing. My body is still getting used to the forecoming winter and I feel the chill on my skin. In the middle of the city, 100m from a road with intense traffic, a northern goshawk calls from Siberian larch.🌲 Photo from Helsinki 2014.🌲 #winter #winteriscoming #talvi #finland #suomi #discoveringfinland #garden #puutarha #evergreen #goshawk #kanahaukka #urbannature #kaupunkiluonto #helsinki #canon5d #50mm #nature #natureljournal #natureobservation #luonto #luontopäiväkirja #havaintokirja

There's something incredibly soothing in wintery pale grass and reeds.🌲 Planning my second bachelor's thesis and loving it. The best part of the uni studies if you ask me!🌲 Also planning the next summer's hike. I'd love to sleep in the nature more often but finding company for it can be tricky.🌲 Photo from Helsinki 2014.🌲 #winter #talvi #pale #grass #kalpea #harmaa #grey #nature #luonto #naturephotography #luontokuva #helsinki #joulukuu #december #monotone #canon5d #50mm #finland #finnishnature #discoveringfinland #thisisfinland

Got my voice back \o/ granted, I can't reach the full scale for ages (I can usually sing alto and soprano) but hell I can speak again ❤ Photo from Helsinki 2014.🌲 #victory #finally #vihdoin #olijoaikakin #abouttime #sky #taivas #clouds #pilvet #gradient #finland #discoveringfinland #finnishnature #nature #luonto #naturephotography #luontokuva #canon5d #50mm #helsinki #softtones #gameoftones

Just recently I've had a couple of inquiries about my name. Does it mean something? How do you pronounce it? 🌲 My name is Outi Ilona Kimalainen, Outi being the first name I mostly go by. When pronouncing "Outi" as an English speaker, it's quite easy when you know the trick: "ou" is pronounced as "oh" when someone tells you that something a bit surprising yet nice happened and "ti" sounds like a short version oh the word "tea". Oh, tea except in one word, ohtea.🌲 The word itself doesn't mean anything in Finnish. One origin story tells that is sort of a Carelian pet name for Eudokia, a greek name meaning "good deeds". I'm not an etymologist but I find it relatively far-fetched: how on Earth can you turn "Eudokia" into "Outi"? They don't even have common when pronounced.🌲 The other origin story seems more likely, at least from my opinion. In Lapland there is an area called Outa-Lappi, forest-Lapland. I've read that the Sami word for forest is "outa", but I can't really find anything online to confirm it- and the claim itself is false to begin with, since there are several different Sami languages, not just one. But even the North Sami word for forest, "vuovdi", is much closer to "Outi" than the claimed Eudokia.🌲 My last name is "bumblebee", literally translated 🐝 Kimalainen is a fairly old word, considering that bumblebee in Estonian is kimalaine (without the last "n" of the Finnish version), and similar forms are found in Latvian and Lithuanian languages too.🌲 Photo from Helsinki 2014.🌲 #etymologia #etymology #bumblebee #kimalainen #name #nimi #outi #outa #vuovdi #lapland #lappi #naturenames #finnish #nature #luonto #luontokuva #naturephotography #helsinki #suomi #finland #finnishnature #discoveringfinland #vanhankaupunginlahti #urbannature #canon5d #50mm

The sun rises at 9.15 am and sets at 3.15 pm and the grows shorter still as the winter solstice comes closer. We've had small layers of snow a couple of times now but even New Mexico has had more, judging from the IG pictures.🌲 Fun fact: yew-tree is called "marjakuusi" in Finnish, literally translating to "berryspruce". Berries, which are actually cones, on a spruce that is not spruce but yewtree, a distant cousin of spruce (they both belong to the order Pinales). 🌲 Photo from Helsinki 2014. #winteriscoming #eventually #maybe #taxus #yew #marjakuusi #park #puisto #kaupunkiluonto #alppipuisto #urbannature #canon5d #50mm #naturephotography #luontokuva #yleluonto #joulukuu #december #finland #finnishnature #discoveringfinland #beautyindarkness #night

It's dark and grey and wet and windy and perfectly pretty. Neighbors have christmas lights and lighted plastic christmas trees and reindeer on their yard and keep them all sparked up throughout the night too while they sit indoors with curtains closed. I close the curtains too, mainly because there's enough light pollution without us already, and also because it helps moderating the room temperature. It's curious isn't it- why do people feel the need to light up our yards in the suburbs? Especially when their curtains are closed. Mystery.🌲 On the weekend I planted and re-planted some indoorplants (lemon mint, spearmint, tradescantia, spiderplant), some for us and others to be given as presents. I gathered up all the clothes that need mending and started working them one piece at the time. So far two done, third on the way. 🌲 Planning a trip to a cabin in the middle of the forest next summer. Simple food, nice people, bonfires.🌲🏡🌲 Photo from Helsinki 2014. #lightpollution #valosaaste #diypresent #plantgifts #mending #korjausompelu #leaves #lehdet #joulukuu #joulu #december #christmas #helsinki #helsingfors #urbannature #park #puisto #alppipuisto #munympäristö #kaupunkiluonto #canon5d #50mm #nature #luonto

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