Thursday, 16 October 2025

First snow in the Finnish Lappland this year

 Today news told of first snow in Kilpisjärvi at the upraised hand of the Finnish map. It looked nice, unlike many Lapplandish pictures. Kilpi=shield, järvi=lake  järki=rationality, shielded by good quality rationality, which is a good advice, but it is very north, was it only 100 inhabitants, the area varying between Finnish, Norweigean and Swedish and other nationalitues depending on who wanders there, Finns beibg a compromise but the land too narrow and too tough for it to stay clearly which area is whose. 





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