I can’t remember last time I’ve seen so much snow in Helsinki!
I shot a zillion pictures – here are a few of them.
These two pics were shot 19.12.2010
I wonder when this car will see daylight again…
I had a dinner at my mom’s home – it looked like it normally looks in Lapland!
It was beautiful and so QUIET!
Now I have to get used to our upstrair neighbour’s lifestyle again.
Early morning walking with high heels, kids playing and running,
cleaning lady pulling and pushing furniture…
Barking dogs, speeding vehicles, honk, honk, honk…
I try to think positive – only three months to suffer!
44 thoughts on “snow, snow, snow…noise, noise, noise…”
Thanks for your visit. Here in Sweden, where I live, it has been the coldest, whitest December for 110 years. So lucky for me! Your snow pictures are magical! I love the quietness that comes with the snow.
How nice to see you here!
It was so beautiful in Helsinki. I’m not a winter person but dark winter season looks and feels nicer with snow…
WOW…I’ll bet you don’t get ANY snow in Casablanca, do you? Hope you and yours had the Merriest of Christmases!
No snow here! But it rains in the winter time.
Today it’s nice and sunny…
We ate and slept a lot at xmas… 🙂
wow. you got a bit of snow! we had snow on christmas day…first time in 29 years….lovely pics!
It’s been snowing even more in Helsinki!
29 years – that is a break! 🙂 I guess all the kids were happy….
Maybe it’s the shadows but the first one looks like a frozen donut on stick.
I gave you a shout-out today:
http://afcsoac.blogspot.com/2010/12/crystal-balls-and.html
Maybe it is a donut!? 🙂
A shout-out, thanks, now I know I have mission!!! 🙂
Some really lovely photos here. I like the ones at the bottom a lot!
Thanks Sara!
Enjoy rest of the year! 🙂
Lovely pics of snow…I am a little jealous! Moving hmmmm? I need to catch up on my reader and see where you will be next!
Best and happy new year!
Tina
We don’t know yet where we’ll be next! 🙂
Happy new year to you too!
Lovely snow shots! I wouldn’t mind playing in it for a bit 🙂
So, what did I miss? What’s up in 3 month?
I thought I read it all,…but must have missed that part
3 months and we’re moving again….. 🙂
Ah, the where part was what I wondered about.
🙂
Well, Best of Luck!
I hear you on the noise part. We have the AC on (on the warmest) at night, so we can sleep through. No constant noise, but the every once in a while stupid race driver, trash collectors and whatever else is even worse 🙁
I hate noisy neighbours.
We are on the top floor, so we are lucky in that regard.
But our windows are like no windows, through them you hear everything like if they were open.
Windows…we have the same problem.
We play relaxing music every night otherwise I’d wake up several times every night…
We’ve learned – top floor is a must if we live like this in the future…
People in Casa want to be like Europeans but they don’t have European manners. They drive in the city like they used to drive in a countryside. They hang carpets, linen, clothes in balconies and they clean it with water – and if you happen to be walking underneath it’s your fault.
They don’t have vacuum cleaners here. Our landlord asked what’s that for. Oh boy.
I thought you preferred it to Casa. Are you having mixed feelings?
Mixed feelings…I guess you haven’t read all my posts?!
I thought that what ever would be better after busy and polluted Cairo but I was so wrong.
In Cairo people are more polite than in Casa. Here people are rude, traffic is horrible, prices like in Europe but quality not.
But we can manage! 🙂
Beautiful pictures – I love the quiet that snow brings, but I don’t have to live with as much now as you do!
Much snow gives light into darkness! 🙂
I love the snow pics… the pics not real life! My African Butt would truly freeze. Just to be nice I will show you Winter in LBC, California on Friday 😉
Hope your Holidays were Jolly!
Oh boy, I’ve seen what a mess some parts of U.S. have because of the snow!
My Scandinavian butt is used to all kinds of climates! LOL! 🙂
huoks huoks ja niisk niisk, kannatti tehdä matka ihan lumen takia, on se sen verran outo määrä Helsingissäkin. Minä ymmärrän niiiiiin hyvin mitä tarkoitat hiljaisuudella! Tschump… silleen kun lumikokkare tipahtaa puun oksalta pehmeesti hangelle.. I miss that little sound!
Just noin hiljaista. Ei kaikua, kaikki on pehmeaa…
Oli ensimmainen kerta aikoihin kun oikein nautin lumesta ja talvesta – ehka siksikin kun tiesin paasevani pois – en tieda. Muuttamisen kannalta oli rankkaa mutta muuten tosi mukavaa.
Kylla Suomessa monet asiat on todella hyvin!
Beautiful snow pictures Blogitse! I hope that these 3 months pass quickly and you can find a way to have some happiness in them….
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
BG
3 months will go quickly! I have a lot to do…
Happy holidays BG!
Noisy people are vexing aren’t they? 🙂 We have a lot of snow here from yesterday and today, too. But the wind is whipping madly and I’m not quite ready to face it, yet!
Lovely shots and thanks for the blog visit!
Peace,
Gina
Whipping wind doesn’t sound inviting…
Right now it feels good to be inside 🙂
Peace!
That just makes me miss snow more! I love that hush a big snowfall can bring – your pictures brought back so many memories. Thank you for sharing them so I could have great memories!! Beautiful! Visiting from SITS.
It’s great you’re happy! People in Helsinki are guite tired of snow already….
Thanks for your visit, enjoy rest of this year! 🙂
Ihan hurja kyllä tuo lumen määrä! En ole noin paljon lunta koskaan nähnytkään….
Yritä kestää sitä yläkerran melua,onko sulla sellaiset korvasuojat? Mulla on,koska lentokoneet menee yöllä pään päältä…..
Se on sellaista melua joka tulee ‘lapi’. Korkokengilla kavely ja lasten tavaroiden heittely lattialle kuuluu pitkin seinia, puhumattakaan huonekalujen siirtelysta. Niita kun ei nosteta vaan vedetaan tai tyonnetaan marmorilattialla.
En osaa kayttaa kuulosuojaimia. En tykkaa olla ‘eristettyna’ ulkomaailmasta. Joskus reissulla kaytan mutta 24/7 kotona olisi hiukan liikaa! 🙂
Mother Nature is on a rampage in some places, that’s for sure! The northwest USA is currently under blizzard conditions. On the west coast it poured rain for about 10 days in a row! And Europe seems to be getting more than their usual share of snow and ice! Lotsa folks setting up camp in airports all over the place. Quite crazy!
In Helsinki they’re planning to start education for aiports: how to fly even if there’s snow and ice…
Here in Casa they had terrible flooding while I was away. Three days without electricity – the whole city!
Crazy indeed…
Ohhh fantastic pictures! That’s a lot of snow, that car is almost unrecognisable under all that load! And yes, when it snows so much, there’s a special sitllness in the air, isn’t there? Quite a contrast, I can imagine, with Casa, where everyone is alive and lively!! 😀
LOL! 🙂 ‘everyone is alive’ in Casa – even if it’s quiet in Helsinki people are alive! 🙂 (Even if it doesn’t seem like that when people are busy and in their own worlds…)
I know! 😀 I just wanted to play with words here! But in winter, everything seems to be so still, especially when it has snowed – it’s just beautiful, isn’t it? And quite a contrast with what life is like in places like Casa, teeming with activity.
Just a few weeks ago, when my husband went to pick me up at the airport with his father and his step-mother, my first impression was: are these people asleep or sth.? Why is everybody and everything so quiet? 😀
LOL! 🙂 I know, just teasing! 🙂
I can imagine you coming from Argentina to Holland – what a difference.
I’ve heard how people in Casa want to live in an area where it’s quiet but they themselves are not quiet… 🙂
Yesterday it snowed 15 cm more…
Yes I know – I’ve been listening Finnish radio via Areena… 🙂
Hienoja kuvia syntymäpäivältäni. 😀
Taytyykin tulla onnittelemaan!