Sienestää (English version)

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It is the Finnish verb used to say "to pick mushrooms". It´s amazing how languages are adapted to habits in each country.

In the same way, there is another curious verb, saunoa. It means "to take a sauna".

Talking about mushroom, since a month ago it is a perfect time to pick them. However, since last weekend, cold is coming and they could be dead now.

But the last week, we taked these beautiful pictures:

There is a curious thing about this. We found these mushrooms in Tahtitorninmaki, the park which is in front of our house. There are a lot of them there and all of them are differents!

But it´s more strange to find this at the end of July:

Finally, one month later, I could see many firemen trying to empty the tree. It was full of water caused by the last rains. In the second picture, you can see the tap on the trunk!

All this explains why mushrooms could have grown in that tree. The mushrooms love wet places and this was it. The tree wasn´t taled, good news. But now it has a big hole in its trunk: