Finders Keep.. Or Is it? / Löytäjä Saa Pitää.. Vai Saako?

Somewhere in Lapland

On the one of my adventures I found this hidden gem

So beautiful

Standing on the meadow

Surrounded by flowers

I assumed this one was abandoned too

Like so many other old house

Sense this one was almost collapsed

Like too many other old house

The door was loosely locked

Again I was wondering

Where goes the line of trespassing

When it is breaking in

And when it is a friendly visit

The law says it is always trespassing when you go in

No matter if the door is open or closed

And I understand this

There is too much people whom don't know how to respect the old house

They brake windows to get in

Make a mess inside

And take all kind of old things with them from the house

For these kinda things there is a simple term

It's called burklary

There is a simple code for people wanting to visit old places

Take only photographes

Leave only foot prints

Simple as that

Then the other thing is

What is 'abandoned'

Old house or cottage that looks like there has been nobody in decades

Can be still somebody's summer house

It would be wise to find out the history of the place

Before you go in

But like me so often

I come a cross with the places by accident

In this case I try to use common sense

I always also ask from the house if I'm welcome

Usually the house welcomes me and shows me the way in

But sometimes not

Then I respect that and continue my way

When I was younger

I was too thirsty for adventures

And too blind to stop and listen

So I made a way to get in this old house

While inside I got this really bad vibes

The whole house was rejecting me

There was a lot of scary stuff

And stuff that where obviously stolen

And I realized there has been somebody

Somebody I wouldn't want to meet

I left the place and never came back

Afterwords I felt bad

I had broke my code and the common code

I had actually done something that wasn't fun anymore

So you live, you learn

I never posted the pics from that house anywhere

and I never will

So now I was standing on one door again

Asking if I'm welcome

This time I was

The house was in a really bad shape

The basement was totally collapsed

I was stepping super carefully on the floor

Numbers at the house base stonewall tells that the house has been build 1938-50

Note on the bench tells that somebody has been visiting the owner 1983

Latest newspaper was the Hufvudstadsbladet from 1994

From the internet I couldn't find any information about the house

So it remains a mystery house for me

Exploring the main floor is always nice and exiting

But going higher or lower is always a bit scary

Especially if the house can collapse in any minute

Do you rather get burried

Or take a leap of faith with the upstairs floor

This is always a nice mind game to play alone in the spooky old house

This time also there was no ghosts making them selves visible for me

Not even afterwords from the pictures

Which is also kinda spooky when you see something in the pic

That wasn't there when taking the pic

So this seemed very peaceful house

It just stands there in the middle of the flower meadow

With the bright colors little by little fainting from it's walls

I'm not going to reveal the location of this place

So let just say it is somewhere in Lapland

Local people probably know the place already

Sense I definitely wan't the first one visiting there

(Some ladies had typed on the piece of paper that they were here)

But I hope you will enjoy the beautiness of this old house through my pictures

And maybe understand why I sometimes bend the law for the pics and stories

Fairytale Gone Bad

Abandoned Places

Somewhere in Eastern-Finland

 This is the end

You know

The dreams you had

Went all wrong

You got to a point I can't stand

I've had it to the limit; this can't be your land

I ain't more than a minute away of falling

You can't cry the paint to stay

You can't find a neat way

And slowly realize

I'm no more on your side

Out of my sight

Out of my kind

Out of the years

You can't rewind

You need to swallow all your pride

And just leave this mess behind

Out of my beds

Out of my steps

Out of the dreams you had

They are bad

Tell them it's you who made me sad

Tell them the fairytale gone bad

Another night and I leak

They all make mistakes and so did these

But they did something that can never be turned right

Find a new one to ruin

Leave and don't look back

I won't follow

I have nothing left

It's the end of my time

*******

The original lyrics are from

Sunrise Avenue's song Fairytale gone bad

Ps. If you like abandoned places

Here's some more!

Abandoned Dreams

The abandoned town of Crownmountain

An old Finnish school

Moldy Home Exhibition / Kotihome Näyttely

Mäntyharju, Finland

A cultural art-day in Mäntyharju

Me and my sister decided to spend a bohemian day

So went to see this odd art exhibition at our home village

The name of exhibition was

Katajainen kansa - Taidetta purkutalossa

And the basic idea was

That an abandoned or emptied

Depends on whom you are asking

Block building turns in to an art exhibition

Cool idea!

And a lot of space for an odd art!

Every apartment was in use of a different artist

Here's some of my favorite pieces!

Enjoy!

An illusion of having the home

A tree house or a house tree?

Floating pieces

An old iron ring

Living together

Outside

Whales and the eternity in a living room

Shadow of nature

Everything ends to the Baltic Sea

Alone with TV

B&W

Cowboys and Dead Girls

And now

When you are all excited

I'm gonna tell you

That the names of the art pieces are not real

I made them up

Based on my feelings looking at them

And to be honest

There were a lot of more of them

Than I have photographed here

But these were the only ones I wanted to even show you

Most of the apartments and the "art" in them were

Well

Just empty or lame

If I could have a whole apartment

As my canvas for creating

I would use colors, lights, sound

Everything to create a whole illusion

Where the visitor could sink in

But

Apparently

For some artists

One stuffed whale toy

In the middle of an empty room is enough

And I can respect that

But just not enjoy of that

Pinching a nose

All together

We had fun in there

Laughing and wondering

Always little bit exited

What will we found

Behind the next apartment door

Only down side was

That whole building was molded

We had breathing difficulties

And headache

Both were going worse and worse

 The longer we were in the building

By the evening

The symptoms were almost gone

But the sad fact is

That not long ago

There were still people living in that building

How many of them have symptoms?

And how many more

There is homes like this

Where people are still trying to live in

Asthmatic Art Lover

The demolition machines will arrive at 11.9.2017
And that's the end of the building

Hylättyjä pelkoja / Never let your fear decide your faith

~ Abandoned places ~

An Old Finnish Mine

This is

The Keret's tower

Part of the second highest copper mine in Europa

Well, it was back in 1954 the second highest

96 meters up from the ground

And we wanted to go to the top

"Kummakos on olla rohkea, jollei pelkää?"

- Muumipappa - 

Seison tasanteella
Käsi tikapuulla
Jalka valmiina ponnistamaan ylemmäs
Alhaalla pelkkää pimeää
Ylhäällä pelkkää mustuutta
Hiekkapöly tanssii otsalampun valossa
Pimeydessä kaikuvia rasahduksia
Tippuvaa maa-ainesta
Lukemattomia askelmia
Yksi kerrallaan ylemmäs
Yhä ylemmäs

Sormet puristavat tikasta
Askelmat lonksuvat
Suussa maistuu pöly ja hiekka
Huppu suojaa yläpuolelta tippuvalta hiekalta ja kiviltä
Ollaan about puolivälissä
Kuuluu ylhäältä
Vieläkö jatketaan?
No ei me nyt rueta takaisinkaan kääntymään!

Jalat tutisevat
Jokaisella tasanteella on hetki aikaa hengähtää
Hetki aikaa miettiä alapuolella olevaa tyhjyyttä
Tyhjyyttä ei voi nähdä
Mutta sen todellakin tuntee
Olikohan tämä nyt ihan viisasta?
Lähetän hiljaisen rukouksen
Mä en haluu kuolla tänä yönä

Uusi hiekka kuuro niskaan
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Hymyilen
Niin Miehen tapaista
Niin dramaattista Shakespearea
Puristan huuleni yhteen
Jotten sanoisi mitä ajattelen
Jotteivät oikeat sanat
Kaikuisi näillä kiviseinillä
Täysin väärällä hetkellä
Minä rakastan sinua
Ei nyt, ei täällä
Meillä on aikaa vielä
Me ei kuolla tänä yönä

Työnnymme pienestä huoltoluukusta kirkkauteen
Räpyttelen silmiä
Totuttelen  valoon
Valtavat ikkunat antavat joka suuntaan
Tämä on todellinen Wida Blicka
Korpit raakkuvat ja kahahtelevat ympärillämme
Tavoitan Miehen katseen
Vastaan hymyyn
Me teimme sen
Me todellakin teimme sen

Huiputimme Keretin tornin

This I promise today

Never let your fear decide your faith