There is a little island out in the middle of the Gulf of Bothnia that feels like it is a thousand miles from anywhere. The mainland to the east is just out of view behind the curve of the Earth…
Not wanting to deprive you of other articles I've written the past few months but didn't post on my website.... I kindly offer a few that were published here and there on the innertubes recently that you may have missed. The four articles I've linked to…
So. I’ve made my way through a significant chunk of the photographs I took in the Kvarken World Heritage site last month and feel prepared enough to offer the following four photographs to choose from for rewards to the people…
I have no idea who this woman is. Just another Finnish photographer. I REALLY hope she doesn't mind that I took this picture. After a meal of fried muikku I went down to the the Söderfjärden Meteor Crater to find…
It is a humid mid-morning and the pond is glassy. Dragonflies pass over the muddy flats marking the edge of the water. A Red Admiral butterfly rests on a golden point of grass. A fat and roly-poly yellow bee lumbers…
The Finnish name Mustasaari literally translated means “black island” but as an ancient word Mustasaari holds more meaning that just the literal translation. Since the glaciers rolled away some 9,000 or so years ago, the Norra Kvarken has been rising…
Finns are going to laugh at me for this post but I don't care. I LOVE fried muikku! In English we know this little freshwater fish as vendace, Coregonus albula. In Finnish it is muikku. A member of the Salmonidae…
That is the Tuomiokirkko, the Helsinki Catherdral. While it is one of the most photographed buildings in all of Scandanavia, I've never been terribly impressed with it. I'm not sure why, I guess it is just that I'm not into…
My first crowdfunding campaign is under way! This is my very first attempt at crowdfunding one of the numerous projects I have in mind. It probably will not be the last. Please help me set this project in motion. Click…
Editors note: this is an updated version of an article I published here nearly three years ago. Ancient Games Go North Here's a study I stumbled across that combines three of my favorite things: The Arctic, the Arab world and…
My shot for today is actually a year old. One year old exactly in fact. These Whooper swans passed over the kids and I on March 5, 2012 while we played on the ice in the Gulf of Bothnia next…
Yesterday I was up in Taos Ski Valley with the kids. We were tubing with my daughter’s school. It was incredibly fun. My little boy, watching the skiers on the slopes around us asked if he could learn how. “Oh…
