#pargas

Vintage photographs of fiddlers from Southern Finland and Åland.

Thankfully not the Diddy or Epstein kind (we hope)

Adolf Wikström

Karl Fredriksson

Matts Herman Lindkvist

Föglö man, lil violin idk

Otto Fredriksson

These violinists range from: Houtskär, Pargas, Kimito, & Föglö.

Also I am not dead, I have simply been in repose. Been pretty much bedridden for three years thanks to some post-viral complications from long ago, but now I have some sort of relief thanks to better medicine. Hope you're all alright :)

Today after visiting the hospital we went for a little drive and had some wonderful mango cheese cake in the cutest little cafe in Pargas.

Minimond and Aeggy clearly had plans for my piece of the cake. No wonder the cake disappeared so fast!

On the 21st Of Nov 1784, In my hometown of Pargas/Parainen, painter Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg was born. He lived an 18th/19th century life of poverty & loss; his plight apparent in the often bleak tones of his works.

I present to you an evoking piece he did in 1829: