This is my childhood's home in June 1999. As you can see, summer has already arrived! The green birches in the backyard reflect the mentality in Lapland: they have a strong vitality even in the middle of snow!
For this kind of situation there is a neat proverb: "Finnish summer is short but fortunately there is not much snow!". And the same in Finnish language: "Suomen kesä on lyhyt mutta vähäluminen!".*
*For a help to the pronunciation of the Finnish language, you may want to know that the language follows pretty closely the International Phonetic Alphabet, see [æ] for ä.
For this kind of situation there is a neat proverb: "Finnish summer is short but fortunately there is not much snow!". And the same in Finnish language: "Suomen kesä on lyhyt mutta vähäluminen!".*
*For a help to the pronunciation of the Finnish language, you may want to know that the language follows pretty closely the International Phonetic Alphabet, see [æ] for ä.
