Across Inarijärvi / Lake Inari 25.12.12

  Early morning, around 10am

 I have yet to identify this bird

 Late afternoon, around 2pm

Man I must be healthy...

"Walking is man's best medicine."

Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BCE)

1st night in Inari, Finland

 Traditional Finnish food I - starters (pour Chab : tout ce que je sais : il y a des airelles, du rêne, des betteraves, du saumon aux câpres, du chou...le reste, je n'm'en souviens pas !)

 Traditional Finnish food II - the trout was excellent

 Moonshine over Hotelli Inari

 Night sky over Inarijärvi / Lake Inari - no Northern lights this time...

The moon, the moon!

Moderation

"Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."

Robert Fulghum, author (b. 1937)

The other self

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)

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Sowing and Harvesting

"My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain."

Sara Teasdale, American poet (1884-1933)

Eye to I

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

Take a good book at this

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

Maurice Herzog just died

AFP.com

He paid for the glory [of climbing the Annapurna] in the form of several fingers and toes that had to be amputated because of frostbite.

"You can see what I have less of, but I feel what I have more of and it is incomparably greater," he later observed.