By tarazkp on Skatehive
It is Autumn break here in Finland this week, and the rain is drizzling down onto the last of the fall leaves and into the already saturated ground. Despite the grey, at least there is still that splash of colour in the trees to remind that it isn't all completely bleak yet. Once those leaves fall though, it is considered the "dark time" and when the light is absorbed further into the void. It isn't until there is snow on the ground that sight is possible again. As a birthday present a few months ago, Smallsteps received a night in the country with her aunty and family and I drove her there a little while ago and even she said how beautiful it looked and how there were bands of colour, with the yellow of the cut fields, the strips of green fir trees, intermingled with more yellow of birth and some red from maple and rowan trees. Even at this late stage of autumn and with a dreary sky, it is still looking good. It is so different to where I grew up in Australia, where it was very dry ar