After a continuous 50 frosty weather days we got a second warmer day here today. Snow's beginning to melt. Some rain.

   an icicle 
   melting away -- 
   farewell, my friend

A busy week

I spent again many days in Helsinki (See photo in my
Finnish blog & Facebook). Today is the first warmer day in Turku. Snows are melting. Raining, water.

It's Saturday morning. I woke up and wrote some haiku-lines in my notebook, then I read this morning's breakfast news_ Magnitude 8.8 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE, Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 06:34:14 UTC

Forgot how to count 
all necess
           ary syl
                   labl
                       es

     up and down 
     snowy footsteps -- 
     February

White winter & the greenhouse effect

I wrote a comment in Adelaide's blog:

   winter morning in bed -- 
   no rush 
   to make any breakfast

Adelaide's blog

Sometimes I write comments here and there, making those look like three liners. Sometimes those perhaps are also haiku.

We have got some snow here, too, but not so much.

Freezing cold it has also been; our warming system is working days and nights. Working anyway. Here is one variation for this snowy climate:

     new white snow 
     on an old white snow --
     our greenhouse turning white?

I wrote a wintry-train story (such a haibun) in my Finnish blog, from that serie I left one and now wrote it into Bill's blog:

   in a trembling train 
   sipping my coffee -- 
   the paper cup's warmth

Bill's blog is here.

The language is filled with interesting variations:

   in a trembling rain 
   sipping my coffee -- 
   the paper cup's warmth

;-)

Yesterday I visited Helsinki. The morning train was late. I got two cups of coffee. When returning back the train was late again. This time I wasn't in a hurry. I had one tin of beer & watched the whirling snow beside our train.

     whirling snowstorm -- 
     an express train 
     on its own

Groundhog Day, Feb. 2nd

wintry storm?
no, a hibernating bear
woke up

     resting a while -- 
     midwinter river 
     reposing