30 Days of Photographs II: Something I Hate

I was really struggling with this one, and for the longest time I going to post a photo of 30 Days of Photographs. See, I was arrogant. I used the time we had before the challenge to prepare well. Or so I thought. I had all photos for days one through eight, and I was laughing at the other idiots contestants participants, already whining about how difficult this challenge was. And then yesterday I realized I hadn’t taken a single photo past day eight! All that careful planning, wasted. And now here I am, scrambling day by day to post a photo, just like the other idiots contestants participants. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.


As luck would have it, though, something I really hate happened. It started snowing. In April. This always happens. Spring will be here, the ground free of snow and ice and the sun will start to feel warm for the first time in months. And then it snows. “Takatalvi,” we call it. The ugliest word in the Finnish language, one that doesn’t exist in any other language. It describes that feeling when you’ve just changed the tires on your car from studded winter tires to wonderful flat summer tires, only to realize you’ll now have to change them back or take the bus to work. It describes how you’re sitting on your knees in front of your closet, trying to find those winter boots you chucked in there just a couple of days ago, thinking you wouldn’t need them until next winter. It describes how you wake up in the morning, smiling at the thought of the approaching summer, only to look out the window and see a sparkling sea of white.

I hate takatalvi.

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This post is a part of the 30 Days of Photographs II challenge. Please visit the rest of the participants for more fantastic photos: MikeWJ, Nicky and Mike, Mo, Meleah, John, aka nonamedufus, Bryan, aka Unfinished Person, Mariann, Malisa, Nora, LaughingMom, Tanya, Elizabeth A., 00dozo, Cheryl, Kristen and Katherine. *

30 Days of Photographs II: Something I Hate