sunny side
of this rotten plank
hoary parched

Autumnal trees -
my camera fished
two fishers

a red cottage -
fresh breeze passing
the shore

We are proceeding northwards. Intending to jubilate next week's autumnal equinox at 68 degrees North ... (This one is from the Bay of Bothnia, Kalajoki, where we are staying this night.)

waiting
the sun rising -
morning train

air cleaning -
white clouds, too,
washed up

Sunday's sunrays
turning here
to visit me?

I've been lazy writing here. Sorry for that.

Says
been busy -
a lazy poet

Tall Ships at Turku

Baltic Tall Ships Regatta 26.-28.8.2011 visiting Turku. Excellent weather. Those vessels are leaving tomorrow. Now resting here, in Turku.

a flagging ship -
noon sun
floodlights the wind

A bonus:

just a few ropes -
expecting fair
tailwinds

Strawberry field -
senile scarecrow
watching itself

Busy August -
too lazy
to write a haiku?


Following is a neat version for this:

August rain -
I forgot to buy
sugar

watering can
rotating the rainbow's
day off

thundery showers -
a squirrel jumps from the pine
into the oak

Some rust was found in our roof. We had to order a painters' team to solve that problem.

Painting took some more days we expected due to some rain...

* * *

Our nights are getting longer down here, in Turku.

My friend told me they'll have a sunset next week. He lives at Utsjoki, in Lappland. (H 24 sunny period begun at May 20th.)

Streetlamps needed longer and longer...

Shiny nights -
street lamps'
rusted memory

hurry up -
the sun is ready
also for you

silent forest -
cuckoo laid its eggs
in mosquitoe's nest?

before the autumn
I'm going to change
my mind

Reidar Särestöniemi 1925 - 1981

Artist Reidar Särestöniemi lived at Kittilä. One of his ateliers in the photo. That area is as a museum now, there is also a good cafe. By the river Ounasjoki also his childhood-home left as a museum. (Near this house.)

in the forest
one man's house -
& some mosquitoes

Some more photos here: http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com/2011/06/kekkosen-jalkia-kittilassa.html
and here:

http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com/2011/06/reidarin-museosta-jalkivaikutteita.html

and here:

http://mataleena.blogspot.com/2011/06/reidar-sarestoniemi.html

Lassagammi & Ailu

Some 40 years ago I visited many times my friend Ailu. At that times he lived (when stayed in Finland) in Pättikkä, place by the Swedish border in Finland's Lappland.

Ailu (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää) died a couple years ago. He built a new house over there, Skibotn in Norway, just before he died. That building is now sort of artists' residence.

nobody at home -
with the wind
a soft sound

Have a look:
http://www.lassagammi.no

A holiday trip to Norwegian side today. My wife asked at what time we will return to this cottage. "Before the sunset" was my answer. (It is not so long trip, but because of reindeers wandering on the roads etc.)

breakfast egg
cloudy side up claims
it's a good moorning

Peaceful countryside

I have spent several days now just traveling all around our Lappland... Now staying in the middle Lappland, near Swedish border. We hired a cottage here.

the wind, either,
not allowed
to rest

Our car in the parking lot is so happy; the sun warming her days and nights. A hay(na)ku:

shining
all over
the unsleepy sun

As you know, the sunrise here was around May 23rd, and next sunset will be around 18th. July. This place is 68 Degs North. (Muonio.)

wondering
where to wander
next

That hasty bird
not at all acquainted
with my ideas?

Not so frequently online; I'm visiting Lappland, returning southwards next week.