Typical traditional Finnish home, Sodankyla, Finland, March 11, 2002
White board quoins, corner windows, high horizontal windows under the eaves,
crossed framing corners at gable windows, central chimney, birch trees everywhere.
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Classic Finnish house, Sodankyla, Finland, March 10, 2002.
Note the white corners, the high soffits under which are small horizontal
windows, the lap board running in two directions, the paired window under
the gable, and the ancient roof antenna. Not to mention the birch trees...
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Liesio's home in Sodankyla, Finland
March11, 2002
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Farmer at Seipajarvi, Finland. The frame is enclosed in chicken wire to keep the birds away. hanging inside are strips of salted reindeer and beef. These are left outside to freeze dry for six weeks.
this meat has been outside for a month. The farmer is getting a small piece of beef for us to taste. It was pretty good; we took it with us and shaved thin pieces off it: beef chips. March 12, 2002
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finnish architecture: home and fence, Sodankyla, Finland
March 13, 2002
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Finnish architecture: a storage and work building, Sodankyla, Finland.
In the angle of the gable at the shaded west end of the building are hung strips
of meat to freeze dry; this takes six weeks.
March 13, 2002
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finnish home architecture
... and home food preparation: there are strips of meat hanging to freeze dry
in the gable peak in front of the chimney.
March 13, 2002; Sodankyla, Finland.
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This just proves that a car port can be useful in a cold climate:
there it keeps the snow off rather than the sun.
March 13, 2002
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A home in Sodankyla.
No, that's all there is to it.
March 13, 2002
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Lappish architecture, Root Cellar Division.
The sledge is askew, the camping trailer in hibernation, waiting for mosquito season.
March 13, 2002, Sokankyla, Finland.
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