Every year one must marvel how the days grow brighter as spring approaches.

[maijanlainen@mementomori.social]

Every year one must marvel how the days grow brighter as spring approaches. I photographed moss and lichen in daylight at half past eight in the morning on my way to the library. Just a little while ago it would have still been dark when passing by this rock wall in the morning.

Yesterday I was watching a downshifting video on moving to the countryside, and the new cottage owner/renovator said "I've never noticed the seasons shift before" and my understanding is that he's from a town rather than a city.

What I like about Helsinki (which is also a thing the city council planning commission is planning on destroying) is how much space they used to give for trees and little pockets of nature between houses and different areas (now of course everything must be paved over in the name of progress, even though there are whole new empty buildings because no one wants to live in them) - I am appalled by how little nature city planners allow in general in towns and cities all over the world.

But for now, still for a little while, it's possible to observe seasons in my small pocket of the world, by how dry the winter air has left moss on rock, the amount of light on a certain time of day, how bare the branches of the birch tree outside my balcony are. And so on. And so on.

#lichen