Saturday morning, we did have a reason
to drive to Helsinki: to take my sister the dressmaker and her daughter to the
Tallinn ferry and to fetch a few books we had ordered from the bookstore.
As so often in recent winters, there
is a lot of snow in our capital but in the main shopping area the streets and
sidewalks are heated and therefore snow-free at all times. Yesterday morning
they were also completely dry as snowfall was at a halt for a change. The pedestal
of the statue at the Three Blacksmiths’
Square, which is probably the most popular meeting point in Helsinki, looked like a huge layered cake with whipped cream icing.
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| This blacksmith has the face of the sculptor Felix Nylund himself. |
The Three Blacksmiths themselves were wearing a white little side cap and a rabbit-fur-like collar or shawl of snow. I had to shoot them. It’s not
that often you have a chance to admire well-built men wearing nothing but a couple of light accessories.
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