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Showing posts with label Nurmo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nurmo. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Sunset at Nurmo river

This is Nurmonjoki, Nurmo river. Nurmo is part of Seinäjoki and this river flows trough it.

Monday, 23 July 2012

Empty Beach

This july hasn't been very good for swimming or beach activities. I believe the temperature hasn't gone over 20 degrees many times this month. I hope some warm days are still to come.

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Museum of Nurmo

This is a museum. Museum of Nurmo. Nurmo is part of Seinäjoki.

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

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.

Saturday, 13 August 2011

Thursday, 11 August 2011

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.

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Church of Nurmo

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

Thursday, 7 July 2011

Golf

A full length golf course can also be found in Seinäjoki. The name of the course is Ruuhikoski.

Saturday, 25 June 2011

The midnight of Juhannus in Nurmo

It is Juhannus, the festival of midsummer now. The sun sets only for few hours. In Lappi, northern Finland sun doesn't set at all. This photo was taken at midnight along a field in Nurmo. Nurmo is part of Seinäjoki.