raindrops keep falling...

It has been dry. No rain in weeks. And that has been good because the deep frost has not turned the roads to rivers of mud. Just some frost boils and sunken culverts. Some years ago I hit such a drop while driving and that was the end of the journey: the motor fell off and also the gearbox dropped... Lovely  country we have... one of the richest in the world...

Anyway today when we were having our daily exercise, the dog and me, it started  raining. There was just over a kilometre to go and it was not raining very heavily so we only got a bit damp - it was kind of scented and sweet anyway...

The bird cherry buds are rather swollen, still more higher in the tree - they'll probably be in bloom in a week. These last years, three maybe, they have opened like this - my birthday is on 22'nd so I have noticed. Earlier maybe once in ten or fifteen years... so it is getting warmer!

 Snowdrops with drops of rain... so small and so delicate and yet they just endure...

everything is growing

The spring  is weaving green, light and pure, over the scenery.

 Moss grows sporophores, delicate little 'flowers' glowing red and orange.

 The older spruce are covered with beard lichen and horse hair - the air is clean.

 Spring is like green mist over the birch.

 On the field some work has been done.

 It is the most green.... light and fresh and pure...

 And everything is growing, growing, GROWING... like in a hurry, a sudden burst of intense will to live... summer is so short and so much needs to happen...

Really high daily temperatures

+20 C and a bit more even, and everything is turning green - it has not been raining in a few weeks so it is really amazing. Spring is early this year, and also due to the lack of rain - I think - are the butterflies; so many that I don't remember such. 

The catkins in the willows are something truly delicate and make me smile out of pure joy.

 And what is it happening here! Springly feelings getting on...

Hope there really will be some rain because water from the melting snow is almost gone...

 Our friend of many years woodpecker is just behind the atelier window...

There is still some snow in these pictures when two deer came to the backyard searching something to eat.