Monday, November 13

The difference in colour palettes struck us both as soon as we left the airport. We drove past Jumbo and on towards Vuosaari as a landscape passed us by, made almost entirely of grays with a few faint embellishments.

Today I wake up to grayness brightened by falling flecks of snow. I go outside to clear away the leaves that have fallen in the last month or so. That takes me a couple of cold hours.

Now I look at the wall in the kitchen and wonder where this came from: India or North Africa? Certainly not from north Finland.