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Post by Ariete on May 22, 2018 9:22:40 GMT -5
I was here two years ago, but I think it went largely unnoticed then. And of course we have a lot of new members anyway.
I went to the hill area which earlier functioned as a landfill. Like a literal landfill too, where the city dumped earth and rocks when digging the harbour deeper, when building new tunnels, buildings... anywhere where excess earth was digged up. Parts of the area was also a conventional landfill, but that operation seized in the late 50's. The dumping of earth ended in the 1970's, and since then area has just been left alone. The area was declared a protected area last year.
Why this area is special is that the vegetation has apart from the lower ridges grown organically, the soil is rich, and the biodiversity is extremely high. The top of the hill is also the highest point within city limits (a whopping 65 mASL  ).
I start my journey here:
You immediately see that the vegetation is roughly the same age and not the typical Finnish landscape:
After climbing upwards, to the SE the suburbia meets you immediately:
Track going forward:
The vegetation is mostly deciduous and with some nice blooming rose bushes:
All kind of shit:
There's the top:
On the top. In the middle you see the building Airiston tähti, which is currently the tallest residental building in Turku. On the right you see the two tall cranes of the Turku Shipyard:
Finland is a forested country. Apparently:
The city:
Downwards!
Lol what happened here? Split by lightning or what?
and then along the ridges, which wasn't really down all the time. Nice green and lush:
I've heard rumours that some cities plant sterile common limes, but this is proof that Turku doesn't:
Some fire damage here:
At the "base", if you can call it that, the vegetation is much older:
And also more typical Finnish:
Lots of rocks have been dumped here:
Approaching the end. Straight behind that wall of spruces the suburbia starts:
Suburbia nice and lush though:
Looking towards the base of the hill:
Not much going on approaching the bus stop:
Back in the city:
You can see the cathedral tower from everywhere, even surprising places:
Not much going on in this part of the city though it's pretty close to the centre. But there is nothing to do here either.:
Temp was 24C, wind occasionally noticeable especially on open ground around the hill and on top of it of course. DP around 7C.
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Post by Donar on May 22, 2018 14:39:17 GMT -5
Will make sure to look back at the OP in late May, thinking "wtf was this less than 3 months ago?!" !!! |
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Post by rozenn on May 22, 2018 15:11:14 GMT -5
^^ Yeah! Even trees in subarctic Turku have leaves now! Nidaros Blasphemy! Lille is a city, not a town!  It was Mons, Belgium. Why is there someone wearing swimming shorts at 12-13c? Dunno, as it was fucking cold with the wind.  Nice convective skies lately. From yesterday:  From today, around noon. Parts of Paris got hammered a couple hours later.  |
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Post by Babu on May 23, 2018 6:04:53 GMT -5
Took an evening stroll along the Umeå river yesterday. It's not actually this calm; this is just a small bay.  Very pleasant. Lots of summery flower smells. I was surprised to see gigantic towering wild maples. Normally all the wild maples here are relatively young indicating a warming of the climate recently. Didn't take a picture of them though because nobody cares.  Creek with lots of water and vegetation.  Loads of huge fields rivalling Tavelsjö, and this is just 2-3km from the city center.  The name of this area is "Umeå riverdale". Nice name.  Yet another stunning sunset!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 13:20:30 GMT -5
 Sunset I took from work today, the camera really didn't capture all the colors or do it any justice. Was very beautiful, pic didn't come out as good as I wanted it to, but it was still nice so I decided to post it anyways. Low light is a bitch when taking photos. |
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Post by Babu on May 24, 2018 14:39:37 GMT -5
Nothing but wooden houses on the left, nothing but brick apartments on the right and nothing but birches in the middle. Umeå in a nutshell. Although the brick apartments should be on the left and the wooden houses on the right, if you catch my drift   Red leaved weirwood birches, yellow bubble as we call beetles in Sweden, and among the most Swedish houses you can find.  This is pretty typical of the central parts of the city, 1km east and west of the center.  Some old building nobody lives in. No idea what it's for. People on the lawn playing what might be the most typical Swedish game - Kubb. You basically throw sticks at the other team's logs.  TRIGGER WARNING: NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH OCD!  Which is a good seguey onto this. Fucking hell. I'm disgusting by my composition and embarassed to share it, but here's a skate park...  I found this rediculous anomoly of a dandelion.  Turns out it's a siamese triplet dandelion. Not a twin. A triplet. What?  And as I cut across a field I caught some dandelion on my black skinny jeans. Oh my, what a tragedy.  Look at the beautiful color of our river. Some say it's brown due to the toxic bullshit that runs off the vegan latte sipping skinny jeans and round glasses wearing nation cucking muslim fucking leftie greenie commie homo hipsters that rule the city.  I found a tree without leaves. No idea what tree it is, nor why it's bare. Is it sick? Idk.  I wonder if the grass is brown because we have had continuous sunshine for over two weeks?  Back in Tavelsjö the dandelions are coming along nicely. In a week the whole field will be nothing but yellow from millions of dandelions.  This house has a pet boulder.  And look! I've found my dream house!  |
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Post by Ariete on May 24, 2018 15:03:52 GMT -5
Seems that Swedish cities aren't huge on repainting road markings either.
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Post by Babu on May 24, 2018 15:24:02 GMT -5
Seems that Swedish cities aren't huge on repainting road markings either. Roads almost never have middle lines here unless they have multiple lanes. |
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Post by Nidaros on May 24, 2018 15:31:13 GMT -5
My contribution - took this photo today May 24th. Chestnut in flower in Trondheim, not far from where I live.
Sunny all day, high 19.2C.
Up to 28C high in the Oslo region and only 8.9C in Hammerfest today
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Post by knot on May 24, 2018 20:26:41 GMT -5
Babu Do I see some black poplar in those pictures? Never knew Sweden had them!  Black poplar/Lombardy poplar are everywhere here, which is splendid; loveliest bloomin' tree there is.
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Post by Babu on May 24, 2018 23:40:58 GMT -5
Babu Do I see some black poplar in those pictures? Never knew Sweden had them! Black poplar/Lombardy poplar are everywhere here, which is splendid; loveliest bloomin' tree there is. No that's an oak. We have a few laurel poplars. There are black poplars in Sweden. We might have some, who knows. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2018 15:12:12 GMT -5
Babu Do I see some black poplar in those pictures? Never knew Sweden had them! Black poplar/Lombardy poplar are everywhere here, which is splendid; loveliest bloomin' tree there is. No that's an oak. We have a few laurel poplars. There are black poplars in Sweden. We might have some, who knows. I've never seen an oak that looks like that. Lombardy poplars are extremely common here and they are very distinctive. |
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Post by Hiromant on May 25, 2018 15:24:12 GMT -5
Side note: shouldn't we switch to a summer thread now that even the northernmost locations look summery?
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2018 15:31:45 GMT -5
Side note: shouldn't we switch to a summer thread now that even the northernmost locations look summery? We should switch to the summer thread from 1st June. |
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Post by Ariete on May 26, 2018 5:01:02 GMT -5
I've never seen an oak that looks like that. Lombardy poplars are extremely common here and they are very distinctive.
You both are referring to different trees in different pictures. The tall slim ones in the 3rd last picture are populus tremula erecta.
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Post by rozenn on May 26, 2018 6:13:21 GMT -5
A few stunners from the past few days.   Before a storm. One can spot the Eiffel tower in the distance.  Subway station floor after above storm  Took a few quick shots this morning, the nice weather continues. Lovely. |
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Post by ral31 on May 26, 2018 7:10:16 GMT -5
Rainbow yesterday evening after t-storm.  |
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Post by urania93 on May 26, 2018 7:47:11 GMT -5
Today I was around Susa for watching the start of the 20th stage of this year giro d'Italia (if you don't know it, it is a really famous road bike competition which is hold every year in Italy in May and pass all over the country [1]). I took some pictures about the competition itself too, but I'm going to post them in the not-weather photo thread later. Here there are the pictures more related to weather and mountains instead:   ^ Albeit the lack of sun during the last month, cherries are starting to turn red already!   ^ That's the square where the competition started, but now I want to comment the mountain behind it. From the picture it is not so clear, but there are several spots in which the trees are not green at all, a lot of areas look brown if not black. Those are the spots burnt down the large fire we had in the last fall, which burned more than an half of the woods of the side of the Rocciamelone facing our valley (experts estimated an extension of about 2400 hectars burned down). It really hurts to see the mountain in that condition, and it will probably take decades before it fully recovers   ^ that's a picture taken in the same square during the fire. On the other side of the mountain the situation was even worse.  ^ larger view of the same fire |
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