Lumipallopuu – Snowball tree

 

Kirjonnan mestarikurssilla tekemäni tilkkutyösarjakuva.

I made this quilted cartoon in the master class in embroidery I joined a few years ago.

SNOWBALL TREE

LATE IN A SATURDAY EVENING…

(in the background there´s a very common dancing place in Finland in late 60´s: an open dance hall near a lake, you can hear a man singing an old Finnish tango)

                                … a silvery moon is making…

                                                    …a silvery bridge over the sea…

                        …there couldn´t ever be…

    

        

                    …another evening like this…

“Hey, look out!” “What?”

EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ELSEWHERE

“When mom comes, we´ll go to see my brother Veke”

(County of Kuopio, town of Liperi)

“Last night they drove to the electricity pylon. In the morning their dead bodies were taken away.”

“You two, go back to the house.”

“A lot of blood was on the car seats. Were they from the neighborhood?”

“From the village center. They were coming from the dance hall. Just recently got engaged.”

“Veke promised to give us a branch from a snowball tree. We can plant it then to our garden.”

50 YEARS LATER

“Hi, is this the same snowball tree our mother got from Veke long time ago?”

“I suppose so. I don´t actually remember. I must have been so young then.”

“I remember”