second hand flowers and spring

 Since there's virtually no spring flowers yet, I'm wearing tiny flowers of my own - in the form of this jumper. Which I would've really liked anyway, but obviously like more knowing that it was a second hand shop find for a couple of Euros. I love second hand shops. 

 Coat - Vintage // Jumper - 2nd hand // Jeans&Shoes - H&M // Bag - Sister's old/Marimekko

 I had nothing much planned to write about for this post, so I'm obviously going to talk about the weather. Recently I'd find myself frustrated wondering where spring is, not even realizing it's clearly already here. And the fact that I now live in the south hadn't perhaps quite registered. Here's the difference: yesterday my mum (who lives in the north where I grew up) sent me pictures telling she's still been skiing on the river and evidently there's still lots of snow. Whereas I've been putting my winter coats and other things into storage, seen people outside in t-shirts (something people in the UK and in southern Finland apparently have in common, will never understand how these people basically get undressed at the first sight of some sunlight). So I've now retired this jacket from this season, most of the snow you can see in these pictures has now melted, and I'm trying to be less moany. It's meant to be +18°C next week which is basically summer, after all!

Only after taking these pictures at the park surrounding the Turku Art Museum, I did some research to discover that the statue behind me is "The statue of friendship between Leningrad and Turku" (Leningrad now being St. Petersburg). The four hugging figures now make more sense. The park has other statues as well, and I definitely prefer the ones with swans and cranes. But for a bit me and my tiny embroidery flowers were part of this strange giant-hug. And will probably be again in the future when it gets even warmer as I was scouting for nice picnic spots in the park that I can return to!