Only those who live in Finland would know what I mean when I say, “The benches keep popping up”. The city of Jyvaskyla is melting. Snow that once covered every square inch of Finland has seemed to have disappeared in a matter of days. The part of town that has underground heating and that my family calls “spring street” (because it looked like that street was in Spring while the rest of Jyvaskyla was in the dead of Winter), isn’t the only street lacking snow now.
And what I meant by “the benches keep popping up”, is that the snow here was piled so high that it covered everything, which meant tons of benches were completely submerged. Now when my family and I go for a walk, we notice all the benches that line the sidewalks, or are on the small hills, and also by the lakes, etc.
I’ve been taking advantage of the ground not being icy by going for long runs and also what I like to call photography walks. I brought my really nice heavy duty camera, but until now it’s either been too snowy or too slippery to take it out on a long walk looking for likely picture material. It’s already starting to become the beautiful, lush, and vibrantly colored place that Finland is known to be. During one of our long walks today, we saw our first flower buds peeking out of the earth. I am so excited for spring.
