FREEZING --- IT IS COLD UP HERE

Now we have mostly freezing feelings here, because the winter came earlier than last year. The temperatures have been moving between -10 and -15 C the last week. My wife, who has been picking berries from the nearby forest, was compelled to cease her activity, when there is about 15 cm snow on the ground. It is simply impossible to rake up berries under snow.
this picture shows the snow covered ground in Haukipudas (photo Eero Pietilä)