It's pretty ho-hum here in Suonenjoki... I'm eating blueberries and going to work. The last 2 nights I've gone up and watched them apply the black-out curtain to about 600,000 spruce seedlings. They are giving them a 12-hour day (or night) to encourage them to set buds. It only takes 2 people about 15 minutes to do the job because it's mostly automated, except for a little hand work at the very end. I was wondering aloud why we don't use it more in Moscow, but then I looked at the forecast for this week. Yikes! I'll stay here in Finland were it's a beautiful 75 F. Today was a bit more exciting; I got my first piece of mail in my official mailbox. No, it wasn't from Finland. Ted Alway sent me some Iliamna seeds from Washington to add to the germination experiment we are trying to do. I say trying because we are still working on what the best treatments to test might be. No sooner had I opened that, and they brought me a box that Deb had sent. Dang. Too bad we couldn't have spread the joy over at least 2 days! This last photo for today is of silver birch seedlings. It seems that birch seedlings come up in every crack of every sidewalk, so it seems weird that they grow it, particularly because they complain that the "mooses" are always eating it. But, it made for a nice photo with the late-in-the-day sunlight.
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