tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post114711241476492720..comments2023-04-18T05:44:04.300-04:00Comments on Songs To A Midnight Sky: As promised...Prishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-1147171278617785162006-05-09T06:41:00.000-04:002006-05-09T06:41:00.000-04:00Yes, isn't this a wonderful celebration song?And T...Yes, isn't this a wonderful celebration song?<BR/><BR/>And Tom, thanks for that site. I just looked at it and never knew Finns formed such a large group in Michigan. The Finnish friend who sent this is actually from Finland.<BR/><BR/>I went to grad school in the midwest and lived in New England for 8 years, so remember snow in May at times. Yes, Spring doesn't arrive the way it does in more southernly climes.Prishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-1147140721374133122006-05-08T22:12:00.000-04:002006-05-08T22:12:00.000-04:00Wonderful portrayal of spring. One could really ge...Wonderful portrayal of spring. One could really get tempted to celebrate spring feeding on honey! Tom said it --- we never really know when spring has arrived.Endmenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13711896605197134394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-1147139839787425482006-05-08T21:57:00.000-04:002006-05-08T21:57:00.000-04:00Here we do not celebrate the soumi rite of spring ...Here we do not celebrate the soumi rite of spring - but we do celebrate a mid-winter festival<BR/>http://pasty.com/heikki/<BR/><BR/>should take you to a link about the festival. Finns are the largest ethnic group in the copper country. <BR/><BR/>somewhere i have a fun poem about pannakakkus at the soumi resturant in houghton. <BR/><BR/>enjoyed the poem - <BR/><BR/>(we might have snow on friday! no wonder we don't celebrate the coming of spring - we never know when it is or was)<BR/><BR/>tomtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02038980686084187677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-1147116793763355372006-05-08T15:33:00.000-04:002006-05-08T15:33:00.000-04:00So Beautiful! I will have to show America. She i...So Beautiful! I will have to show America. She is always making up her own languages... this sounds a lot like her favorite, but it is real! Maybe she is preparing for a life in translating Finnish!novice.knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073099259801881407noreply@blogger.com