Peter reading a newspaper...

A yellowjacket stripping the bark from a tree branch for what reason I know not.

Red is the most common and therefore the characteristic colour for buildings, old and new, in the Finnish countryside. In the old days ingredients for this paint were found in nature. Nowadays the same colour is produced chemically/artificially. Red wooden buildings, white trunks of birches and green leaves and grass are for me colours of our subarctic summer - only the blue of lake is missing in this picture.