So our holiday is drawing to its end, and we are leaving early tomorrow morning. We'll be driving towards Rovaniemi at the Arctic Circle and we'll visit the Santa Claus Village for a few hours. Later we'll drive to Oulu, for an overnighter at the Radisson Blu Hotel.

On Tuesday, after a breakfast at the hotel, we'll drive to Tikkakoski and spend the night over at my in-laws, after which we'll take the road towards our home in Lahti.

It's a bit saddening that our trip wasn't a long one, but I really need to get home before the 27th, because that's mine and Vera's 10th wedding anniversary and I really don't want to miss that. (Although I'm still at loss about what to get her.)

Anyway, I don't want to bore anyone with our married life, instead here are some shots created by my older son, Leo (Licensing differs from mine, these are all licensed Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike by Leo Larnos). I'll be crediting everything this post receives to him, and will power up his upcoming account with it.

Leo's photos:

Entering the amethyst mines.

When we were at the amethyst mines, Leo suddenly realized he had his camera with him. :)

Dad posing with a Tree

He'd just begun to use manual mode on his DSLR, so he didn't always get the pictures right at the first try, but he did try...

Little creek

...and with a little bit of trial and error...

Flowers

...he started getting the hang of it.

The family "cottage"

Sometimes I had to do a bit editing...

The barn

...but often just minimal adjustments.

Flowers in the yard.

Sometimes they were just perfect.

Niittyleinikki (Common buttercup, Ranunculus acris)

And don't come telling me a kit lense can't do a decent bokeh! ;)

Reindeer stew on mashed potatoes.

Eating at Huttu-Uula is always one of the high points of our trips to Pyhä. I like the fishy dishes, but reindeer stew is almost everyone's favorite (except for Miro who always ends up getting sausages with fries and mashed potatoes.)

Testing out daddy's 10-18mm ultra wide angle lens.

Leo is always keen to testing out something new, and my ultra-wide is one of those things. I think he could find some exceptional subjects to shoot with it.

Woolly plant?

I don't recall what this plant was called. I liked to think of it as wild cotton in my youth.

On the scenery lift towards the top of Kultakero.

And up we went, to eat pancakes...

Hotelli Pyhä accommodations seen from the scenery lift.

Restaurant Tsokka, on the top of the hill.

On top of Kultakero, we'd visit Tsokka and eat some exceptionally good cloudberry pancakes there, with whipped cream, and cocoa on side.

The scenery seen from the top.

We could see so far from up there. Sadly my smart phone makes everything look so small, but these DSLR's they sure do the trick. This photo is part of five others. We are planning to stitch them into a panorama.

Going down on the lift.

Huttu-Uula, the restaurant we ate the reindeer stew in.

Oh, and we ate pizza there today with the boys, and my aunt who got here yesterday. Mine was a smoked salmon pizza, and Leo got a reindeer pizza.

Some vehicle.

We call it Lumikissa (= Snowcat in English)

One has to shoot pictures of stones too, you know.

Stones have a beauty of their own, I do shoot them too quite often.

The tree, and the stone.

A somewhat smaller tree.

Dad isn't the only one who can take pictures of flowers.

When I took the last "One photo every day" project picture, Leo tried his skills too. And while I did give him some advice...

More proof that Leo is firmly following in his dads footsteps.

His skill is clearly showing.

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Thank you for watching these through and hopefully reading the backstory too. Leo would probably like it if everyone upvoted and commented these, gave any good advice and resteemed it too, so we can give him a good head start when his account is up. What do you say, can we do it for him?

Cheers and see you again in the next one. I'll be posting from mobile tomorrow, as we are on the road again. Good night for now!

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