Helsinki

tags: flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Tufted Loosestrife, Lysimachia thyrsiflora. Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this? Photographed at the gardens at the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) This isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but I hope it's good enough that you can identify the plant.
tags: travel, nature, environment, cities, Munkkivuori, Helsinki, Finland Brick tower that is just outside my host's apartment in the Munkkivuori neighborhood in Helsinki, Finland. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) Now that a new month has begun, my Flickr accounts allow me to upload images once more, so I am back to cramming them full to bursting with images for the photoessays that I wish to share with you from my time in Helsinki, Finland. As…
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Biting (Goldmoss) Stonecrop, Sedum acre, also known as the Wall-pepper. Helsinki mystery flower, can you identify this? Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) This isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but I hope it's good enough that you can identify the plant. Stonecrop is a succulent herb that includes perhaps 600 species -- mostly in the North Temperate Zone. Many…
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Helsinki daises. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Helsinki daises. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: road, woodland, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Trees. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) Can you name any other large city in the world where you can walk in nature within 20 minutes or so after arriving on a plane?
tags: road, woodland, nature, Helsinki, image of the day A Well-Traveled Road Through a Wood. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Mystery blossoms. Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Daisies. Photographed at Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: Bridge, Talla, nature, Helsinki, Finland Talla (Bridge). Photographed on the way to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) Here's a look at the floating wooden bridge that I walked across on my way to visit the Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. I saw a pair of Great crested Grebes and their half-grown chicks on this body of water -- a new species addition to my life list!
tags: Daisy, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day Daisy. Photographed at Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: art, tombstone, Hietaniemen Hautausmaa, Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki, Finland, cities, nature Tombstone. Photographed at Hietaniemen Hautausmaa (Hietaniemi Cemetery), Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 21 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
tags: art, statue, sculpture, mare and foal, Helsinki, Finland, cities, nature Ãidinrakkaus (Maternal Love) Bronze sculpture (1927) by sculptor Emil Cedercreutz (1879 - 1949). Photographed at Varsapuistikko, at the corner of Unioninkatu and Kaisaniemenkatu, Kluuvi, in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 23 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I love this sculpture. Does anyone know who the artist is, its name and anything else about this piece? (I can't find anything on the web to share with you).
tags: bumblebee, Helsinki, Finland, cities, nature Bumblebee on my hand. Photographed in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 23 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I am sure I must have looked like I was insane when, walking down the sidewalk, I spied this bumblebee sitting on the concrete. I plopped myself down onto my hands and knees on the sidewalk and spent a few minutes nose-to-nose with her, trying to figure out if she was dying because she was hurt or old (or maybe she was just resting?). She looked to be in good repair, so I got her onto my hand to photograph her. It's not…
tags: Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, cities, image of the day Looking out from the fortress. Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 19 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
Talitiainen (Great Tit), Parus major. Photographed in Hietaniemen hautausmaa (Hietaniemi cemetery), Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 24 November 2008 [larger view]. Now that I am on the plane, returning to the USA, I will share my revised list of birds seen in the Helsinki area of Finland during my three visits (8 days in November 2008, 3 weeks in February/March 2009, and 3 weeks in July 2009); Helsinki Finland Bird List (new Life List bird species that I first saw in Finland are denoted with red asterix): *Pikku-uikku (Little Grebe), Tachybaptus ruficollis -- November 2008…
tags: Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, nature, image of the day I expected to see hobbits running around this part of Suomenlinna, but alas .. Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 19 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I have returned to one of my two favorite haunts in Helsinki; Suomenlinna. This island fortress was built from stone by the Swedes to protect Finland (a part of Sweden in the 1700s) from invasion by sea.
tags: Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, nature, image of the day Suomenlinna in summer, 3 [the same place in the winter] Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 19 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I have returned to one of my two favorite haunts in Helsinki; Suomenlinna. This island fortress was built from stone by the Swedes to protect Finland (a part of Sweden in the 1700s) from invasion by sea.
tags: Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, nature, image of the day Suomenlinna in summer, 2. Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 19 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I have returned to one of my two favorite haunts in Helsinki; Suomenlinna. This island fortress was built from stone by the Swedes to protect Finland (a part of Sweden in the 1700s) from invasion by sea.
tags: Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, nature, image of the day Suomenlinna in summer. Image: GrrlScientist, 18 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I have returned to one of my two favorite haunts in Helsinki; Suomenlinna. This island fortress was built from stone by the Swedes to protect Finland (a part of Sweden in the 1700s) from invasion by sea.