Karelian memorial stone

The karelian memorial stone was established by the ostrobothnians together 

with the karelians of the province. A lot of karelians who evacuated from the Finnish Karelia during the wars resettled to the province of ostrobothnia as well as all over Finland.
More information about Karelia.

No swimmers anymore

One of Seinäjoki's beaches. Not so many swimmers anymore. 

The autumn is coming. Nice fountain though.

Seinäjoki

I believe every town and city has their name written with some plants. This is our version.

Shame on me

Four days without a photo. No one else to blame.

Delicacy

What would you like?

Jackdaws gathering

These jackdaws are sitting some 25000 volts under their tails.

Lambs

Old ostrobothnian house

I believe this is the main building of an old farm. I don't know exactly how old it is, but my guess is around 150-200 years. Almost all of the farm houses of that time were log houses.

French food market

The french Team Fantastique brougth a french foodmarket to Seinäjoki. It also visited Helsinki and Tampere. Here are some sausages being sold  at the market. They also sell among other things baguettes(of cource), olives, dried fruit and cheece. To the finnish eye the sausages look a bit weird.

Some cheece.

People waiting in line for their baguettes.

Bird's eye, Lakeuden Risti

This is Lakeuden Risti, the church, seen from above. What does it look like?

The wooden poorboy

This is a detail seen in one of the earlier photoes. In finnish "Vaivaisukko" is s a wooden boy standing by the church of Nurmo. These statues can be found in many churches in Finland. The wooden statue has a coin-sized hole in it and people can donate money for the parish.

Hundred posts

Yippee, One hundred posts.

Kirkonkranni

This is the local parish office. The building is called "Kirkonkranni", which is dialect for "Kirkon naapuri". That means "The neighbour of the church". I don't know the meaning of the statue, but I'm going to find out.

Family Picnic

"Östermyra days" is an event that takes place in Törnävä. There is a lot of program going on in the area. All the museums are open for free. This photo is taken from an organized family piknik.

Three little houses

Three little houses in Nurmo.

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Marshal of Finland

I believe almost every city in Finland has a street or statue, or both for Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, who was one of Finlands presidents and a Commander in chief during world war II.

Wrestling

The national wrestling statue. This statue was revealed in 1984. The area where Seinäjoki is located (South Ostrobothnia) has always had good wrestlers e.g. Jouko Salomäki and Marko Yli-Hannuksela.

Waiting for demolition

This functional style house stands in the way of the new library. In the last years it has served as an additional office space for different functions of the city. The library is being built behind it. If I have understood correctly, it will be demolished as soon as the library is ready.

Church of Nurmo

This is the church of Nurmo. Nurmo is nowadays part of Seinäjoki. The church was built in 1779.

Concrete piglets

These little piglets stand in line in the parking area of a hypermarket.

Duck Pond

This pond used to have a lot of ducks before, wild and domestic(the white ones).  It was even called the duck pond. Now there are only few wild ones. I don't know who used to bring the white ducks but they do not seem to appear anymore. It was fun feeding them as a kid.

Apple

Some apples ready to be eaten.

Not a lighthouse ...

 

...but another water tower. Sorry about no photoes in few days. I had to go back to work after a nice holiday(which is no excuse). Anyway here is a photo of a another old water tower that can be found in Seinäjoki.

Fountain

This little fountain can be found at the bottom of the Lakeuden Risti Tower.