Dark Clouds

Dark Clouds - above the village Pälkäne, etc

You maybe can press the shot large and focus on the bus in the road - it is so rarely seen, that it makes this shot spectacular!

In Finland, in small villages, there is normally almost no public transportation at all nowadays. Only some rare connections during the day, once in an hour or so - mainly to the bigger towns / vities and back. In the villages nothing at all. Taxes and long journey buses togheter convey chilrden to school and from school, if the fare is more than 5km. There is a change that a child is left by the shool taxcar to the road junction to wait for a longjourney bus. Waiting can take even 1 hour, in freezing or rainy weather.

Economic depression is not the words used in publicity. Prohibited almost.

I use it anyway. Shot taken at 3pm on saturday. The big picture in this village is this: most of the people work somewhere than in the village. There is one restaurant and a pizzeria, but the restaurand (blue house) is just disbanding. There is 2 banks in the village, but cash services only at 10-13 weekdaily in one of them. One pub is remaining, others closed since several years. There was one cafeteria, now closed and they are selling the room. Shoeshop closed last year. There still is one gas station with kiosk, one cold gas station, two flower shops, two hairdressers, two very small cloting stores - another selling household supplies. And two supermarkets and three kiosks selling some food too. 20km to the closest town Valkeakoski and the same on the other direction to Kangasala.

Anyway nice weather, partly cloudy +10c, mostly sunny. Visited quickly grandmum as they needed help with picking apples. Early home.

My daughter has lost her passport into the school in friday as she (her head blurring) was leaving her history matriculation examination. (SIGH) The headmistress answered to her query today and told there was 2 passports in the office of the school brought from the examination hall. I surely hope another of them is my daughter's. And I know the headmistress hopes so too, as she is responsible for the situation (location of the ID-papers was quite odd, and any student could have taken any passport or ID). And I have been in contact to her too, very polite but wondering about the situation and making suggestions to make the better system... Passport lost in Finland is a police matter with report. So I know the headmistress is a bit worried now too. Let's hope the passport is found in monday!

I am not in very good mood.
Heading to sauna.

See you later, folkes!