It’s greening up :-)

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It’s starting to green up πŸ™‚

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The week has been mostly sunny but with a nasty cold wind from north. Also well below 0C (32F) every morning. Most days though the sun has melted away most of the ice on the car so it was only this morning I had to use the ice scraper again.I was a bit worried when the dogs and I was going out on our walk after work because the last two ones Alma has been horrible. Mostly because hares run out in front of us and instead of running out in to the forest continued in front of us for quite some time. I really wouldn’t feel sad if all hares just died out πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Today however, despite some other hares, she behaved really well again. I don’t know it it was what I told her yesterday that helped, that I would let a hunter shoot her to oblivion πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ She’s smart but I’m not sure if she’s so smart that she would have understood what I told her but I think she could understand how tired I was after those walks πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ So today she’s forgiven again. It’s so fun because my neighbors like when she jumps over the fence to them because she’s so calm when she plays with their oldest daughter, sometime I wonder if we’re talking about the same dog πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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The road association meeting is next week so I have put out notices about it in the mailboxes here in the village. The village road is more or less a circle so if I would do it all by car before going to work I would have to pass my mailbox twice and if I did that the dogs would have thought I was on my way home again and would have started to bark like crazy. Not a good thing at six am, so I decided I would walk to the four closest. I haven’t been able to walk there in a long time since both Albin and Alma behaves like they do when seeing wild animals, they would wake up the entire village. So I brought my camera and took a few photos since it was not just sunny but also so cold that we had morning mist. I realized how much I miss walking there but I just can’t reach those two when they start behaving like that and those times are the times I miss my old dogs the most πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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More and more flowers are in bloom in my garden now. I hadn’t checked that this week so I was surprised to see so many flowers πŸ™‚ I also found a flower I tried to plant in my garden when I moved here, 23 years ago. They survived a winter or two but suddenly they were gone. Now I found a lump of them in my hedge and I’m pretty sure I didn’t see them there last year. I have no idea how they managed to get there but who cares πŸ™‚ Also I now have six apricot trees growing from kernels I saved from last autumn and it looks like three nectarines are on the way too πŸ™‚ I have no space for them really but who cares, I’ll make space for them when that day comes πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Have a great day!

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Yellow wood anemone and the now everywhere growing Nuns worth and Scilla of course.

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I still have a Trillium but since first Albin and then Alma arrived they’ve slowly died away, those two run over them and dig everywhere.

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Checkered lily.

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The more normal one.

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Cowslip.

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Lesser periwinkle.

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This is the one I thought I had died out in my garden, the Pilewort.

4 responses to “It’s greening up :-)”

  1. librall Avatar

    Lovely to see your flowers. I do like Scilla tho it spreads a lot. The blue is so pretty. We have something that looks like your pilewort but I can’t think of the name for it. I do like it but it grows wild down by the river and they don’t let us dig them up in the parks. Have a great weekend.

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    1. Christer. Avatar

      Hi librall!

      Yes if one get one scilla there’s zillions of it just a few years later πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ but they really don’t push anything else way so I’m happy to have them.

      There are some different pilewort species so it might be a relative to this one.

      Have a great day!

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  2. Caryn Avatar
    Caryn

    It’s gotten very green here. Especially the grass. I’m leaving general mowing until after the start of Bethleham blooms which it rarely gets a chance to do. I’ve discovered mouse ear grass, forget me nots, and wild garlic in the lawn. I tasted the wild garlic. Doesn’t taste like garlic at all. Tastes like all the heat of onions taken to critical mass.πŸ˜„ It does smell like chives, though.
    The sun is finally out and, allegedly, there will be lots more for the weekend.

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    1. Christer. Avatar

      Hi Caryn!

      So far it’s almost only spring bulbs that flowers here plus the early wood anemones and lung worts. It will get warmer from tomorrow though, even at nights they say so I’m pretty sure it’ll explode with flowers soon πŸ™‚

      I would have loved to try that garlic πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

      Sunny and chilly here this morning, besides that fact that I like being out as soon as the sun have risen and it’s still almost frosty outside the ticks aren’t active then either πŸ™‚

      Have a great day!

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