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

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

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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On tässä jotain positiivistakin!
Jos nyt lähdetään, niin lähdetään ainakin yhdessä.
Huokaisen hiekkaa keuhkoistani

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