Something Typical

[Asso]

Well!
I, too, want to show a volcano picture.
It's the greatest volcano of Europe.
Mount Etna.

[panyasan]

I like to post a picture as well, but how do you post a picture in the forum? I tried to copy and paste a picture into the Post a reply-form, but alas...

[Asso]

Usually I take an image from the web.
Often, I save a picture on photobucket, then I put this image here.
BTW, thanks for your comment, panyasan.

[Alelou]

From Elessar's kind directions on page one of this thread:

Photobucket's the best way to do it because it's free. Basically, Alelou, you go to photobucket.com and setup an account just like you would for a forum account like this one, where you pick a username and password, and it's free. You have to provide an email address, I think. Then you are allowed to upload photos for free (video too) so that then when you post here, you post the address that the image is stored at, on photobucket. And photobucket makes it really easy. Once you've uploaded a photo, it has 4 or 5 sets of formatted code already produced for you below the image so that all you have to do is CLICK that code and it will automatically be placed into your "copy" clipboard (like when you Control+C or Edit->copy) and then you paste it into a post here.

It has 4 or 5 sets because there are 4 or 5 ways of linking to an image. For these boards, you want the one that starts with [IMG]

It sounds complicated just explaining in words but once you setup your account and put an image up, I think you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Bookworm]

Wow, volcanos, hurricanes, alligators ... sounds scary.
I live in a very "boring" country no volcanos no earthquakes, none of our storms are really bad so no hurricanes or tornados, bad floods are really rare and there is only one poisonous animal a snake that is only deadly for very young children or small pets. I guess the elks are one of the most dangerous animals here. Wolves and bears have killed only one man during the last hundred years and attacked only few. There are about 160000 elks living in Finland, but only about ten people get killed in elk and car accidents in a year and about 300 to 400 might get hurt. We have elk fences and work is done to get those accident numbers even smaller.

So many beatifull places around the world. I hope I get to see some of them some day.

There are some beatifull places here, but compared to many others like the castles in central europe and so on our country is kind of plain.

One very typical thing here is summer cottage. There are half million summer cottages here and five million people so many families have their own or then they share with relatives.



There we go to spent weekends and summer holidays to live a simple life with nature and to bathe in a Sauna and swim in the lakes or sea. It is usual for a cottage that there isn't any indoor plumming. The water might be pumped by hand from a well and carried with a bucket into the house and sauna and then the washing water might be heated with wood stove and there might not be shower so washing is done by pouring water with some kind of scoop. There usually are outside toilets and some places don't have any electricity. There is the nature.




And then there is the simple physical labour doing things wiht your own hands.



Here is another nature and water picture it's from a river. The house where I was born is only few meters from that river. And as I said it's very rare to have floods so the house hasn't been in any danger although it's so near the river.


Here is the house.



This house is also very typical for Finland. After the second world war there was a huge shortage of houses, because we had lost land and had to move 400000 people from the lost areas and build homes for them and also houses had been destroyed during the war. So they desinged this easy to build house called "rintamamiestalo". My grandparents were one of those who had to leave their home and move from the lost area. They were given little land from that river bank and the desing and instructions how to build "rintamamiestalo" was free to everyone. So my grandpa cut the trees from the land he was given and carved timber from those trees and build the house for his family made a sauna and a small barn and started to farm his little land.

[Bookworm]

And I almost forgot this picture. One very typical thing that we have in our gardens is apple trees and it's soon going to be the time for the apple trees to make flowers and it's really beautifull.
Here is the apple tree garden from that house in my last post with my grandparents, me as a baby, my mother and our dog in it.

[Escriba]

First, bookworm, having a country with no natural disasters is great, not boring.

Second, maybe Finland doesn't have castles and things like that, but its Nature is its main monument. Such beauty...

Third, I adore Finnish, it sounds so complicated I remember when a Finnish writer came to our High School to talk about his (your) country and talked a little in Finnish and everybody was like "ohhh.... that's so cool..."

[Asso]

Nothing typical, eh Bookworm?
Each of your images is worth a whole world!
I have been in your country.
It's among the most beautiful countries of the world!

[Bookworm]

Thank you.

I actually love my home country very much although it might not have sounded that way in my last post.
It was just that seeing your amazing pictures first about those really beautifull and amazing places had an affect on me. I'm so used to the nature it's so common to me to be surrounded by forrests and trees and all things green and blue. We don't have big cities and tall buildings so those things for me are truly amazing looking. And I haven't been able to travel much around the world.
I enjoy the nature very much it's important for my well being to be able to walk in a forrest and listen to birds singing and things like that, but it's hard to see it the way you seem to see it.

[Asso]

:... but it's hard to see it the way you seem to see it.

Not too much.

[Alelou]

Finland looks gorgeous if you ask me. I love that winter picture particularly.

Add a few hills and it would be pretty much the same.

I'm also intrigued by that thing for holding the tree trunk while you saw it. That's something I could definitely use around here. I don't trust myself with a chain saw!

[Asso]

Alelou...
It isn't fitting with this topic, I know... but...
Coming soon: Commander T'Pol Joins Starfleet. But only if you can handle fourth-season angst and NC-17.
Semper ad maiora, right?

[Alelou]

I might agree with you if I had a clue what you're saying... (I got the Semper part. )

[Asso]

Always toward greater things, Alelou... Always toward greater things!

[Bookworm]

I'm also intrigued by that thing for holding the tree trunk while you saw it. That's something I could definitely use around here. I don't trust myself with a chain saw!

If you are interested it's very simple and easy to build yourself. Here is a description. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawbuck