Binge Blog #3: Birch Trees

Those of you who have been following me on facebook have probably figured out by now that I have fallen in love with the birch trees in Finland.  They are everywhere you look and they are beautiful. Large expanses of tall, white, straight trees are a common sight, and stunning one!  The combination of pine or spruce trees and birch is also gorgeous.

These birch trees are right outside our kitchen window.  We walk by them everyday.

Taken on a hike while our friends Hans and Sonja visited.

Gah!  I can hardly stand it!!!!
(OK, I didn't actually take this picture, but I've sure seen this scene a lot!)

A wall of birch "wall paper" at the Forestry Museum in Rovaniemi.

One of our goals in coming to Finland was to find a piece of artwork to bring home and put up in our living room.  There's a big, empty space just waiting for some Finnish beauty.  We have looked and looked and just haven't found anything.  So I decided to make my own...  I'm calling it my "art project."  I think we will choose 9 of the following pictures (and possibly more to come) and hang them in a 3 x 3 collage with simple frame.  I'm having so much fun watching the birch trees as I walk around town, looking for my next close up.

Which ones are your favorites?

Stay tuned for my next art project:  Moss on Rocks.