Christmas trees yet available

Some people have a tradition of stealing their christmas trees from somebody's forrest. Well that's not legal. Here you can by one. I guess it will cost about 30 to 40 euros to get one. I'm not really sure, cause we are privileged to get our christmas tree legally from a relative's forest.

Santa's train

This train took a group of people to Koskenkorva. Twice today. It is the Santa's train. You can see him stepping out of the train. Actually this is a train maintained by the Haapamäki Museum Locomotive Association. This engine is called "Pikku-Jumbo", "Little Jumbo" and it was built in 1947 by Tampella. Below you can see it leaving he station.

White trees

 Cold weather tends to make the birches look all white. It's been -20 degrees celsius few days and about -10 when I took this photo. I quess you could say it's winter now.

Christmas tree of Seinäjoki

This is the official christmas tree of Seinäjoki. Behind it you can see the tower of Lakeuden Risti church.

Independent Finland 95 years

95 years ago, on 6 December 1917 the Parliament of Finland adopted the Declaration of Independence. We have a national holiday today. Finland Independence Day.

Itikka deleting finished

As I wrote before the company which was demolishing the old meat factory Itikka was called Delete. Well now the deleting is finished. Below you can see the "before" photo. Not exactly from the same spot, but I believe you will get the idea. I don't know if they will spare that much of the chimney. We'll see.

This is the same site from a different point of view. You can see the tree behind the sign on the right in the photo below.

The local transport regenerating

The operator of the local transport of Seinäjoki is changing in the new year. It has been operated by Veolia and will now be operated by Härmän liikenne. Veolia is a bigger company, operating in other towns and cities too. Härmän liikenne instead is a local company from Härmä, not far from Seinäjoki.

The local transport here hasn't really developed in the last 20 years. This change would maybe give a possibility for that.  However there was some kind of mixup in the competition and everything can still go back the way it was. That would mean Veolia would continue.

Härmän liikenne branded their buses as "Komia liikenne" (Komia transport). "Komia" is a finnish dialectual word for handsome and it is used in the marketing of Seinäjoki area.

Big Kicksled

This is a kicksled for a giant.

Wikipedia says: The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners which extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking ("sparke" or "sparka" in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back. "Kicksled" is a direct translation of the Finnish word "potkukelkka". Some other possible translations are "kicker" and "chair-sled".
 
If you have ever used one of these(smaller ones) it might have been from Seinäjoki. The finnish manufacturer of kick sleds,  Esla is located in the consolidated area of Seinäjoki.

Dark, Dark, Wet, Wet

November has been very wet and dark. Not very inspiring for taking photoes. Sorry about that. The Christmas season has been opened. Last sunday we saw some fireworks. These are from last year. Not much else is going on.

Graffiti wall

A wall with graffitis. Inside is the skating hall Stache 1.

Funny hats on the market

Someone was selling these funny hats on the annual "Major market" held in the Seinäjoki Areena hall. This poor quality photo was taken with my HTC phone.

Törnävä church in the evening

This is the church of Törnävä in Seinäjoki. I have two previous photos of it from last year.

All Saint's day 2012

It's again time for all saint's day. "Pyhäinpäivä" in finnish. The day which people dedicate to remembering their deceased loved ones. These photos are from the Seinäjoki grave yard. A lot of candles.

This statue stands next to the war graves.

Again from Itikka factory

As you can see this was taken before the snow came. This is the demolition site of the Itikka meat factory. I was kind of hoping they would bring down the chimney all at once (time informed in advance). However, if looked closely it can be seen that piece of it is already missing. Seems that they are bringin it slowly down piece by piece.

Dark winter times

I haven't got a very good excuse for not posting everyday now. But I have one: The days are getting very short and it's already dark here when you leave from work after office hours. I don't like posting "night shots" or indoor photos day after day. That's why there will not be a photo every day. I will still try my best in posting regularly in the winter time also.

Winter river

The landscape changed rapidly. Everything looks very winterly.

The first snow

The weatherman was right. Now we have some snow. It snowed all night. People with summer tires had some problems this morning.

XL food

I think this is kinda funny place for a restaurant. Even for a fast food restaurant. Meaning the building that has XL written on the window. It resides between  different service sheds and you can buy for example a tractor or a steam shovel from the businesses in the neighborhood. The name of the restaurant, XL Buffa, might refer to a lunch buffet having pizza, kebab, fries etc..

Time for winter tires

The weather man said its going to snow this week. So it was time to change winter tires. Winter tires are mandatory in Finland between December and February. Mostly they are used between November and April. This dependes on the weather conditions. For some reason it's a hab

Railcar

This kind of railcars are used on quieter railroutes.  believe the railcar model is called dm12 and it can carry about 63 passengers.  Too bad it was on the rear track so the van and the trailer block the view a bit. I have no idea why they are in between the tracks.

Fall colors

This fall there hasn't been as much beautiful autumn colors than one could hope. Here are some and all in one single rowan tree. The orange mail box somehow fits.

Dragonforce

The British powermetal band Dragonforce paid a visit to Rytmikorjaamo, Seinäjoki yesterday. I only got some poor quality photos with my small camera. This one is the best I can offer. 

As a bonus a short video clip from the beginning of the gig

Lakeuden Risti - indoors

The main lutheran church of Seinäjoki, Lakeuden Risti. Indoors. 

This photo was actually taken in July, but I spared it for bad weather days.

Still raining ...

It's has still been raining today. Not as much as yesterday and the day before, but still. This is not exactly in Seinäjoki. It is in Ilmajoki, the neighbouring municipality. This road had to be closed yesterday.

 

This is Pajuluoma today

  

 This is Pajuluoma in Summer, I believe the water wasn't in it's normal level even then.

 

This is the river Seinäjoki near the techology center Frami yesterday. You can see only one row of stones on the edge.

 

 This is the same place in summer.  Here you can see three rows of stones and something else under them. So I would say the water is about 30-40 cm higher than usual in yesterdays photo.

Raining ...a lot.

It has been raining for a few days. Someone said we have had one month's rain in two days. There are roads flooding and water level still raises in the rivers. Firefighters are fighting the water out from a school's kitchen nearby. Even in our yard there is so much water that we are pumping it with a submersible pump that it will not flood our playhouse. I hope it will stop raining soon.

The other Ferrari

Only some time ago I posted a photo of a Ferrari. I wrote that there might be another Ferrari in town too. Well here it is.

Music Store Järvenpää Gone

One piece of history in musical hobbies in this town is gone. The traditional building of Music Store Järvenpää was demolished. Something new is coming to replace it. We'll see what it is. As a bonus a before and after combination below.

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Construction work continues

It's been a rainy day. I quess it shows in the photo.

Lakeuden Lasi

A company called "Lakeuden Lasi", "Glass of the plains" used to operate here a long while ago. I don't even remember how long ago it was. I quess this building is also to be torn down in some time.

Oldish house

This old house resides along the Jaakkolantie street. It's one of the "oldest" streets in Seinäjoki. One scene of the "Talvisota" movie was shot there in the 80's.  The houses are all run-down and I think they will be demolished shortly.

Ferrari

I'm not sure but this might be the only Ferrari in town. There might be another one, a bit older, but I've not see it in traffic for a long time.

Itikka - not much left

This is the demolition of Itikka meat factory. I've posted a photoes from this huge demolition once before. Also I have one photo of the factory before the demolition started. The one above came a bit dramatic with the backlighting. I wonder how they are going to bring down the chimney. I would like see when it is done.

New library in the evening

An evening shot of the new library. The lights inside make it look quite nice.

Järvenpää

The old music store Järvenpää's last days. This site will be different in a few weeks. The two buildings will be demolished. I posted one photo of this building before.

Rowboats ...

... clearance sale.

A Fence ...

...firmly anchored.

Colorful sky

Nice pinkish sky and some powerlines.

Sunset of the plains

The area where Seinäjoki is located is called "Lakeus", the "Plains". We don't have many hills or mountains here. This is the sunset of the plains. My contribution to the skywatch friday.