Helsinki by Blimp

« Graf Zeppelin flies over Hietalahti in 1931 and, on mouseover, the same building today sans zeppelin. »

Eila, Jarkko's mother, gave me a huge stack of cool old postcards from around Finland [thanks, again, Eila :)] that I've been wading through. Some are hilarious, some are Parr-esque in their boringness and some are really interesting. I particularly liked this one since it features the zeppelin and, in spite of it's lack of any identifying marks, could be dated easily since there have only been three zeppelin visits to Helsinki. I took a photo of the same building today [the Hietalahden kauppahalli is just out of the frame to the right] where you can see some of the scars from the war remain. Postcards are just wonderful and terribly underappreciated time capsules.

I've been reading a lot of the news around the net lately and, well, I think I hit *tilt* when I read that the dark crusader known as Ashcroft has been asked to resign and complied. I'd be really ecstatic about this if I weren't worried about an even more conservative replacement. I just keep trying to think about puppies instead. "Happiness is a warm puppy."