Guest post by Ice Swimmer.
These pictures are from the wetland in Harakka. The summer has been dry and the wetland wasn’t as wet as I had seen it before. Still, it looked quite lush.
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I must say these look remarkably like the wetlands around here -- alder trees, bullrushes, sphagnum moss, and I also think I see some hackberry trees there (Prunus padus). Even the walkway resembles those in the SOOS nature reserve in CZ, which I have visited a few times.
Looks like I would feel quite at home in Finnish forests, except in winter of course. Ours is already longer, darker, and colder than what I like.
Is this the same trip that took place “just after midsummer”? The drought had just begun and would get quite severe by late July, though I don’t suppose those puddles ever fully dried.
The winter here in coastal southern Finland is quite dark, occasionally cold, variably wet and icy and snowy, on average not really colder than in CZ lowlands I think. In the north and northeast the winter is colder and much snowier, though not necessarily darker (due to more snow coverage and less cloud coverage especially in early winter).
lumipuna @ 2
Yes, I took all the pictures during the same day.
Ah, now I remember it says “midsummer” in the post title.
What a beautiful place. I love wetlands, even with all the boodsuckers.