Haaveiden alttarilla / The Altar of Dreams

Odotin

Kiltisti

Pitkään ja hartaasti

Mielikuvissa alttarin rakensin

Siihen meidät sovittelin

Kokonaisen elämän

Elävänä kuvana näin

Hän ehdotti elokuvaa

Sopii!

Kuulostaa kivalta

Pettymys

Hänen olisi pitänyt

Ehdottaa yhteistä elämää

Lapsia ja hääkuvaa

Kaikkea sitä

Minkä jo odotellessani

Rakkauden alttarille maalailin

Verellämme

Ääriviivat hahmottelin

Elokuvaa

Voiko tylsempää ollakaan

Kolmansilla treffeillä

Toivoisi jo jotain suurempaa

Haaveita koskettavaa

Kasvavia odotuksia täyttämään

The Castle Mountain / Linnavuori

Ikoinniemi, Savonlinna

For a long time I have been looking this place on a map

The Castle Mountain

Actually just one of them

There is about 90 places in Finland called as Castle Mountain

Seven of them here in Southern Savo

Some of them have actually served as Iron Age fortresses

Lookout places for enemies

At some of the places they have found evidences about this

But some of the places have just the name

I visited one of these Castle Mountains

Here in Ikoniemi there is no evidence about ancient fortress being here

But for my opinion this has been a perfect lookout place 

The dirt road was so small and curvy

That I was really glad to have my new adventure partner  with me

This being my 4wd car

I just love it

The "parking area" was just a small wider spot by the road

And the path that was supposed to start from the "parking area"

Was so unused that I couldn't find it at first

It had been taken over by the Lilys of the valley

Nice

This kinda places I like

The hidden gems

 It was super hot summer day

I love the smell of the pine tree forests

They smell like home

Like a childhood summers

It's so quiet and peaceful

Only the Whooper swans disagree

At the nearby bay there is some kind of swan mayhem going on

National bird of Finland negotiating who was on that bay first
I would see this noise as a part
Of this kinda national and cultural view

Like Common Gull or Arctic Loon

I try to step carefully on the super dry lichen
Which seems to grow everywhere here
Funny plants these liches
On  rainy day they are like sponges
Soft and elastic
And now in this sudden heatwave
They are crispy and crunchy
And break easily

I also record that
It has been way too long sense my last adventure
Should remember to do this more often
Refill my batteries
Enjoy the moment

I didn't find either any signs about the Iron Age Fortress being here
Two stone piles on the top
Turn out to be some thing that tourists and visitors make when they visit here
It's apparently common to bring your own stone to the pile
I just wonder why so many people carry stones with them?
And I was thinking if the binoculars are too heavy to take with
Jeesus

Definitely worth visiting

Like so many places are

Now I just want to find those six other Castle Mountains

But that's a matter of some other day

The Northern Fire

Playing with fire

Wanting to go higher

Dance till you starve

Under the stars

Above the northern fire

Higher and higher

Feeling lighter

Mightier

The strongest warrior

New day rises

Burning out the fires

Feet on the ground

Can you light another one

For the sun

Get Naked / Alasti

Get naked

A writing on the wall

Followed by a snail

What's it message

I wonder

Laying on a bed

In a clean looking hotel

In the heart of a dirty city

Get naked slowly

Annoying snail

The bed is soft

Sheets smell fresh 'n clean

I hope they are too

I remember the news

About five star hotels

Wore bed sheets were made bed again

How it is in this kinda hotel

In this kinda city

Where snails on the walls advice to get naked

Where they pay you to get naked

Where dirty is love

Vicious love

I love this city

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

The Cycle of Autumn / Syksyn Kierto

Taas yksi vuoden kierto takana

Taas yhden kierron enemmän vakava

Mitä

Enkä ole vakava

Mutta edelleen pakana

Peittona Äiti Maan lakana

Ehkä viisaampi ja vanhempi

Ainakin vanhempi

Monta kokemusta rikkaampi

Vähän taas valmiimpi

Sisimmästään kauniimpi

Edelleen haaveilija

Oman elämänsä seikkailija

Toteutuiko haaveista monikaan

Tuskimpavaan

Ehkä kuitenkin lähempänä toimintaa

On jotkin haaveet

Jos oikein kurottaa

Mitä tuleva kierto tuo tullessaan

Sitä talven tullen voi vain aavistaa

Luonnon kanssa lumivaipassa horrostaa

Sydämessä kutoa haaveitaan

Uusia vaatteitaan

Kevään tullen päälleen sovittaa

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