fresh waters
licking
cleaning gravel

Visited my friend again.
This picture is from his cottage by Deatnu.

Deatnu, lappish, meaning The Big River. In Finnish Teno.

mosquitoes, I
awake, sweating at night...
haunted morning

We just visited my mother-in-law (93 years).
Eastern Finland (Ilomantsi & Lake Koitere).
Two last days, or nights, were occupied by some angry mosquitos...


Ps2:
Usually I don't use so many dots in so short texts, but here I had to.

In the blue sky
not any single clouds --
dusty wind

This is from my old notebook eleven years ago.
Saved this text, here is one possible version:

closed door
keeping the dusts outside -
this fierce wind

Snowflakes ...
as mosquitoes
in the summer

Early darkened evening

sitting 

         & 

             watching  




    year's end

Tomorrow!

winter solstice --
a good time for our sun
to wake up earlier



Merry Christmas
&
a Cheerful New Year!

See this from Wiki!

river's other side
listening at noon
how the time flows

nightly shadows -
a tired white cat
returning home

summer holiday -
vileness by the lake
& bright sun

At first this was my comment in Joseph Massey's Facebook.

Global Freezing

Finland, and some parts of Europe, got a long and cold spring.

Coldest for a hundred years, they say.

Continuous jet streams directly from north Pole area.

I'm calling this climate as a Global Freezing.

trying to sleep --
a cold polar airstream
not willing to

post-owned
by a mighty pine -
magpie´s twig-home

magpie's nest,
well aired home --
a late spring

http://www.climate.net.nz/heating-and-cooling/keep-your-home-well-ventilated-this-winter/#

Easter ...
celebrating
the global freezing

Visited my mother-in-law at Vinkara, Kivilahti, at Ilomantsi. (Eastern Finland.)

The word "vinkara" is said to be an old Sami or Lappish word. They are supposed to live there some thousand years ago, after the ice age. Just some names left. Vinkara means a hill with some kind of freezing wind. Nowadays there are some Sami-people (Lappish) living in Northern part of Finland, Sweden and Norway and Russia. I have some friends among them over there.

a friendly crow
flying silently -
all alone

Happy Christmas 2016!

rounded light
getting higher -
Good Christmas!

which way?

an icy silence - -
how much water
flowing anyway?

windy August day -
the sun slowly moving
westwards

old friend of mine ...
yearly income tax
papers

Juhani Tikkanen

Shiki April 2016 Free Format theme was "friend"


Friend is something or some-one you will meet every year?

Tikkis April Kigo 2016

our old sun
after vernal equinox
migrating back

(Photo added May 1st 2016)

March Kigo entry by Tikkis

canoeing
down the river
driftwood

March 2016 Kigo subject was "DRIFTWOOD"