09 Thursday May 2013
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bud, foliage, green, photography, plant
The snow melted, the sun shines, birds are singing, beautiful spring is here!
We here in the north get to enjoy the spring later than other parts of the world.
The trees have no leaves yet, but some of them are going to grow fast, you can see the buds already.
Happy spring time to everyone!
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01 Wednesday May 2013
The rose from this picture is dried by now. It has lost its beauty and scent, no one will enjoy the bright colors anymore.
But this rose was a part of a very special occasion, which drove us to tears. No tears of sorrow, it was tears of joy.
An evening to remember.
I received this flower as a gift on a saturday, few weeks ago. We were gathering in the mosque as usual. But it was not an usual afternoon.
On this saturday another new sister joined our community and said her shahada, which is the testimony, that there is only one God worthy of worship, and that Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him, is the last messenger.
When I think of the beauty of the rose, and how it’s gone by now, I remember that the words from the sister are not forgotten or gone. Nor are the words from the thousands other women and men, who enter islam every year, and they will always remember their shahada as the words, which gave their hearts the true peace.
Peace, and the knowledge, that nothing in this world happens in vain, that none of us is meaningless, and that life has a higher purpose.
The knowledge and peace kings and rulers would fight for, if they only knew…
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14 Sunday Apr 2013
The sun, clouds and a frozen lake…
A quick shot from the driving car, not a special one as a picture, I asume, but another memory for me…
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20 Wednesday Mar 2013
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color, dark, photography, sky, snow
Finally, alhamdulillah, it’s “spring winter”! The sun is shining finally and it’s getting so high in the midday that we have almost the whole day sunshine in our appartment.
What a huge difference!
But this picture is no sunny one, this is a reminder of the dark days. All darkness must come to an end, and there is always light after it.
I have more pictures of the colored snowy branches, but this one I liked most, although you cannot see much of the colored snow. If you want to see more, just say it 
Posted by amatulhafeez | Filed under Winter
06 Wednesday Mar 2013
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animal tracks, blue, photography, sky, snow, sunset, trees, yellow
One of these beautiful moments when the sun shines…
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24 Sunday Feb 2013
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grey, photography, pine, sky, snow
I miss the summer, and I am feeling little bit like the story from old nan in Game of Thrones…
Oh, my sweet summer child, what do you know about fear? Fear is for the winter, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides for years, and children are born and live and die all in darkness. That is the time for fear, my little lord, when the White Walkers move through the woods… Thousands of years ago, there came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts, and women smothered their babies rather than see them starve, and wept, and felt their tears freeze on their cheeks. So is this the sort of story that you like?
Ok the snow is not hundred feet deep, but I feel like I haven’t seen the sun in years… The above picture from the pines describe the feeling more than words…
Posted by amatulhafeez | Filed under Winter
18 Monday Feb 2013
Posted in Winter
It’s almost one month since my last post, sorry for that.
The weather has been grey, day after another. It’s about -2 degrees celsius all the time, a lot of clouds and sometimes snow. Really depressing. I haven’t seen the sun in weeks.
But like in everything, all this has positive sides too. When the clouds are thick and hanging deep, in the cities, the night does not get fully dark. The lights of the city makes the clouds glow, and even in the darkest forest you can see enough.
Strange though, if you think about the fact, that in the autumn, when there is no snow, it gets so dark in the coutryside, that you literally do not see anything. Not even your hand before your eyes, when there are no other lights.
But back to the bright nights of the snowy cities.
There is a hill nearby, and at the top of the hill is a strange building
It’s glooming blue
And if you see it far away in the forest, it remind one of a ufo.
It’s a strange color combination, the brown-greyish kind of sky, and the glooming blue.
Its very tall, and if you stand under it, it reflects the noises of the streets far away
And it turns the snow blue too
It’s a litte forest
So the lights of the city are not far away…
The pictures are not really sharp, I was outside with the kids, so all the pics are taken without tripod…
25 Friday Jan 2013
This is a closeup shot how the trees get the snowy frosting. It’s no fallen snow, it’s frost from the trees itself. The branches look somehow fluffy
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03 Thursday Jan 2013
A shoot from our trip last month. The landscape was really quiet and peaceful. Near the hut was a lake, all frozen of course. A place where your soul can truly rest from all the hectic of the daily routines.
This picture was taken shortly after two a clock in the evening, so you see our days here in Finland in the winter are really short and the lack of sunlight is hard for everyone, even the finns who should be used to it.
This time the picture has high resolution, hope you like it, no photoshop or gimp has touched it
Ah and the strange light above the sun, the sunray seems to try to reach the sky, I don’t know if there is a name for it, I could not find anything on google.
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30 Sunday Dec 2012
Posted in Winter
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The temperature was about -25° Celsius (should be about -13°F ?) and the sky so clear and blue. The trees were …
