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Day 1,351: vihta, birch



To improve blood flow, enthusiasts can slap themselves with Finnish vihta, fragrant bouquets of birch branches.


Artwork of the day 
Birch grove
Isaac Levitan
Original Title: Березовая роща
Date: 1878; Russian Federation
Style: Realism
Genre: landscape

Word of the day 
vihta: bath broom, a kind of whip made of birch twigs and used in the sauna to enhance the effect of heat by beating oneself with it
birch: a tree with smooth, often white bark (= outercovering) and thin branches

Quote of the day
“So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.”
Robert Frost

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