Finland celebrates its 100th Independence Day with some snowfall

Finland celebrates 100 years of Independence today and the timing yesterday of me going out to snap a few photos couldn't have been better as we got some snowfall during the evening. Today I went out for a longer walk to seize the opportunity of taking more photos while the snow hadn't melted away yet as its still not under 0 degrees celsius here.

Flags raised everywhere, there was almost no house or buildings without a flag today.

The weather was a bit cloudy

Living up north during winter time we only get sunlight a few hours a day, this is probably the highest the sun rises before it starts to set again

Walking towards the park, a few candles had been placed at a memorial stone on this day

The Minnow/Dolphin of the park had gotten some snow on its wings

There was an old man walking while throwing bread crumbs on his trail, seemed like all the birds were gathering around and following him, I did followed along for a while too

I liked the reflection in the water here

The football field was all snowed in, but luckily they had already set up the ice rink

The zoom on my camera was not so impressive... :P

Global warming sure must confuse a lot of bird life these days

I love it when everything turns this white

Now as I got hom at 3 PM the sun seems to already be on its way to set. :)

Hope you enjoyed these photos as much as I did taking them!

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