Garden – Page 19 – Owlnature

A plum fruit in the garden, autumn thoughts coming, too

One delightful plum fruit in our garden! Our plum tree really has grown and ripened one fruit this year. Well done, wonderfully happened, as this is the first whole year of the tree in our garden. It did have more than hundred flowers in spring, but I was hoping to get only two fruits, because that’s how it goes in the early years of the fruit tree’s life… Yeah well, I was actually hoping to get “any fruit”, so one purple fruit in the tree is a marvel. It looks quite amazing! 😀

My previous blog posts about the tree here and here.

This is even more amazing, because we already thought, at one point, that also this fruit had gone – one day I just couldn’t find it in the tree. I said that to my boyfriend, and he also searched the tree, and said that he couldn’t find the fruit either. What are we? A couple of morons? 😀

All of a sudden then, the fruit was there again, on another day… And it still grew bigger. Then suddenly it started to change colour from green to purple, and once it had started to do it, the colour change happened very quickly.

Wow, oh dear oh dear, I’m grateful! 🙂

So hey! It’s already September! But I’m actually quite content with the fact – the autumn may begin. 🙂 And in Owlnature, too. I was away from here for a while, because I had the moving in and out project, or an ordeal, as it turned out to be, a bit. 😀 – Too big closets to store your rubbish there, years of dirt in some spots in one’s student apartment, and so on, but it’s all over now. 🙂 But I do feel that I should have started, everything, that I’ve been doing now, and that I’m about to, hopefully, do next, already a year ago… Buuut enough of this right now, maybe a bit of reminiscing the old things later, again, and we have to rearrange this whole country home of ours here, too, every room, now. Aaand I still have some flower pics and some other pics, too, from August, that I’ll reminisce here in my blog a bit. And for this autumn I indeed have some plans, other than cleaning the house and everything, too, but let’s see what happens – just taking things easy… but very, very, seriously… ;D – And I can say that it all comes down to the fact that I want to grow mentally and I want to learn to do new things, too. And no matter how diminutive the new things are, it’s always an adventure. – Let us not destroy our inner child!

-Leena

Harvesting here, harvesting there…

Hello from Turku! It’s this moving in and out project again that I’ve been at… and now I’m saying hello from here, with a couple of pics.

My morning coffee here today. This is the last coffee pic that I post from here… so, that is why I’m so eager to say hello to the world, from here, now. 🙂

I just say that it’s truly interesting, enlightening and… educational to go through your belongings and your… rubbish, when you have lived in the same apartment for years, and if the place has been your student apartment… whoa! 😀

This was yesterday afternoon in our country home before heading for Turku. Strawberry ice cream and berries – raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries fresh from our garden, and blueberries fresh from the woods next to our garden.

And we’ve started digging up, harvesting, our potatoes. Home-grown potatoes look always so sweet and hilarious. 🙂 And they taste so delicious! Oh, and that lovely soil, too, like in this pic that I took here in my apartment in Turku today, before I started washing the potatoes a bit.

-Leena

It’s raining cats and dogs… on peony poppies…

Right now, it’s raining cats and dogs… so, I decided that it’s now a good time to publish the rest of the peony poppy flower pics that I have. I love rain, too, but right now I’m just having my coffee and I don’t feel like going outside at all… I just love hearing the sound of heavy rainfall on the roof and looking out the window now… 🙂

The first six pics are from Tuesday.

This must be the most peony-like peony poppy I’ve managed to catch up with this summer…

The same flower in the evening, after some heavy rainfall and hailing… Still so beautiful… 🙂

The rest of the pics are from yesterday.

Red, redder…

“Enough with the flowers already, and what do you mean with “raining cats”… and the freakin’ dogs, anyway?” :

🙂

-Leena

Just more peony poppies (July 31st & August 1st)

These days I’m taking as many pics of peony poppy flowers as I possibly have inspiration to take. And inspiration I have. 🙂 I’ve been having already too many pics to be published right away. So, with these pics we are still on the last day of July and on the first day of August. The first six pics are from Monday, August 1st.

Enjoying the red colour of the flower…

And the purple… and the sunshine…

The next two pics are from Sunday, July 31st. I took these pics late in the evening, just before I started to build the campfire that I had in the blog post on Monday…

I try not to be afraid to take pics in different kinds of light every once in a while…

I already had this, a bit blemished white peony poppy, in the blog post on July 31st. I was actually enchanted with this flower – it looked like a bit blemished fairy dress, or a bit blemished wedding dress, or a bit like my own white dress, a bit blemished by the Mediterranean Sea… 😮 🙂

On the left you can see the first cosmos flower before it opened for the first time the next day.

The rest of the pics are from Monday again.

More red…

It’s been mostly sunny lately, but we’ve experienced some heavy, very heavy rain showers – they have come like some tropical rain showers, except that we had some heavy hailing, too, for a while yesterday. And heavy rainfall and sunshine at the same time. – That’s so lovely! 🙂

I took pics of peony poppies yesterday and today as well – nobody’s surprised about that… 😉 The pics here in my blog a bit later…

-Leena

On the last day of July and on the first day of August…

More pics from yesterday, and some I took today. 🙂

Monkshood, extremely poisonous from roots to the tiny hoods, and we have so much of it in our garden – this is a very traditional plant in the old gardens in Finland. The man who build this house was very much a garden man, we’ve heard, so, no wonder – the fact can be seen in our garden today…

Some sort of marigold, very small marigold.

We can’t remember what this flower is… I’ve tried to google it, but no luck with that. EDIT: This flower is clarkia or godetia, silkkikukka in Finnish. Thanks for the answer, A! 🙂

More pics of my cornflowers. Many charming colours they have…

The first cosmos flower this summer, opened today, missing one petal. I had cosmos flowers last summer, too. These are growing from seeds, of course, and I like them a lot. 🙂

Butterfly flower, schizanthus, poor man’s orchid again…

And strawflowers again. Here it can be seen that our tall strawflowers and the shorter butterfly flowers as well as tiny marigolds are tight neighbours. 😀

Yesterday evening by the lake Pyhäjärvi, after some Nordic walking and eating blueberries again. It was so nice to sit on a bench – the air was perfect, not at all warm, not at all cold. The sun was shining, but wasn’t warming, and the wind was blowing wonderfully. 🙂 And the sound of waves, just lovely…

A campfire in our garden last night. It can be said that this was my birthday campfire – it was not only the last day of July yesterday, but also my birthday (and by the way, the birthday of Harry Potter —> WTF? -Oh yes, says a Harry Potter fan (that’s me) here, aaand, it was also the birthday of J.K. Rowling herself. 😀 ) And… how old am I…? I’m actually a bit younger than Harry Potter… ;D Just a bit…

-Leena

Peony poppies on the last day of July

Hi! I have this moving in and out project going on, maybe I reminisce about it later here in my blog, too, but now I need a break from thinking about it… So, I didn’t have the time or energy to take flower pics earlier this week – I’ve missed some peony poppies now, there has been so many of them, but… oh yes, today, I do have some pics here… 😉 As many pics of peony poppies as you can possibly imagine that I have, that I took, today, when it’s already August tomorrow…

One of my ‘wild’ poppies above, all the other peony poppies in this post have grown from the seeds that I planted this summer.

It was raining heavily yesterday evening, really pouring down with rain for a while – we haven’t experienced anything like that earlier this summer. It was lovely, but I also thought: “There goes some of the flowers, again…” But the flowers that hadn’t still opened, all the plants, got just the wonderful water that they needed.

One of the missed flowers, and the heavy rain of yesterday… :

These were not, however, all the pics that I took today – just the peony poppies… The other flowers of today, and some new, too, hopefully, later… 🙂

-Leena

Holistic wellness from nature, me -10 kg (!), annual mallow flowers…

It’s getting miscellaneous again. And I’m visiting Turku again, clarifications about my Turku here. 🙂

Morning coffee pic this morning, on my second floor here…

These two pics I took on Thursday at 23.30 PM (still lightly light in Finland) in the garden of our country home, after we had come back from Nordic walking and eating blueberries in the raven forest. 🙂 And after these pics, when I went inside the house, something bizarre happened…

I hadn’t weighed myself for a long time, but after taking the pics above, I DID, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing… I have lost 10 kilograms without trying! – I have only moved from the block of flats to a country home. 😀 Yes, I’ve noticed that my face, for example, looks thinner now, compared to pics of me a bit over two years ago, but still, my focus has been my mental health – I mean, really, my peace of mind and all… And I know that 10 kilos in two years may not be that much to some people, but for me, that’s a huge accomplishment! In my case, an accomplishment without even trying – just happening naturally – literally. OK, so, no wonder I’ve been feeling that light, the light and the bright at times. 😉

It was just that living in a city and in a block of flats… it just wasn’t for me, I didn’t know what to do with myself there in the end. I started to feel uneasy and even crazy at times, in a bad way, and I know what panic attacks are. In a way, I lost myself, but yes, I gained WEIGHT. 🙂 But I felt at home spending some time in the bushes of northern and eastern Finland. And yes, I’m not alone in this, my boyfriend had the same problems and he has already lost 20 kilos – he already took everything as a physical project since almost a year ago. And we’ve been eating normal (Finnish) food. But my boyfriend hasn’t eaten any wheat for almost a year now. So, we have never been obese, just easy to see.

But enough of this for now, I must just say that one has to give the good time to grow… So, this whole blog of mine is an ode to nature, I share pics and thoughts and the LOVE here, and I’m witnessing the holistic benefits of living close to nature every day in reality, in my own life, and this does not mean I would not love to visit cities, too, and cities, too, have some nature in them. This is just becoming myself, finding my place…

So, let’s continue the holistic struggle! – This I really mean, and this I say with love. 🙂

And with mallow flowers:

More annual mallow flowers in our garden. I took these pics, too, on Thursday.

-Leena