Lots of sunshine, very few clouds and totally rain free today. Thankfully we have a strong wind blowing so all flies were blown away. I really should have mowed the lawn but the energy just wasn’t there in my body. For once I had problems falling asleep yesterday night, I guess because I had that long nap earlier in the day and perhaps that last cup of tea a bit late as well.
I did wake up early though, just before 5 am so not many hours of sleep to be honest. We went out on our morning walk quite early as well and walked down to the creek again. Alma was thankfully rather quiet when we passed our newest neighbours so their dogs stayed quiet as well 🙂 🙂 I think they too are morning people since they horses, dogs, cats and chickens but it is still nice that Alma could stay reasonable quiet 🙂
Nothing special happened during our walk until we were almost at home again, one of the fox cubs stood beside the gravel road and this time I could get a few photos of it. It didn’t notice us because it was looking at the other direction and we stopped rather early so we wouldn’t scare it away. Alma started to whine loudly but for once she listened to me and just looked at the fox. It still has its baby fur but has grown rather large so I guess it won’t be long before it is time for it to find its own new home.
Besides the cub the day has been rather uneventful, The food for next week at work is cooking at the moment, the laundry is done and it dried up really fast in the wind and sunshine. Also I’ve repotted my tomato plants in to bigger pots, one has flower so with a bit of luck I’ll have a tomato or two by the end of next month 🙂
I think it is time for a bowl of cornflakes and I’ll skip that last cup of tea for the day. The dogs and I had pancakes for dinner and even if I gave them half a pancake extra I still feel a bit too full 🙂
To me this has been a rather nice day, no sunshine but still rather warm, mostly misty rain but every now and again it changed to a nice summer rain, You know the kind that isn’t too heavy and not drenches anyone outside.
So the fox cubs were playing just by the gate but the lens was covered in misty rainwater.
We took a walk rather late today down to the creek. Both Alma and Malkolm behaved so well until we had passed our new neighbours, then we met them just after their home and both Alma and Malkolm were so excited that Malkolm for some reason started yapping, yes it did sound just like that and Alma started bawling like insane 🙂 🙂 The good thing was that their dogs did the same 🙂 🙂 They all really wanted to meet but sort of scared each other at the same time so we had to just keep walking 🙂 🙂 🙂
I just like how difficult it is to see that there’s an opening to a path in to the forest that is really hard to see just in front of us.
That’s when the misty rain arrived and unfortunately misty rain sticks like glue to everything no matter what direction it comes from so I couldn’t get any photos of the two fox cubs that played on the gravel road in front of us, they didn’t have the patience to wait for me to clean the lens from rainwater. So I was sort of relieved when the nice summer rain started to fall instead.
Almost no wind today so we were surrounded by forest flies almost all the way. I’ve realised that it is enough to wear a hoodie to keep them away from both the ears and nostrils. I mean they do no harm at all but they have this idea that they need to go inside there to see what they can find and I hate it 🙂 🙂 🙂 Still no biting flies here and that sort of builds up hope that they might be very few this summer but I’m sure that’s a false hope 🙂 🙂
The Fireweed in bloom just outside my livxingroom window.
This weather also removed all ideas that a nap would be wrong, not even the dogs wanted to be outside, so I had a nap in the sofa together with Alma, Malkolm decided it was too crowded so he chose the other sofa and the floor. I’m pretty sure the sofas would be great to sleep on during hot days when the bedroom would be like an oven but it tends to be too crowded with me and the dogs but I think I’ll try it next time the temperatures rise too high, after all I might be able to convince the dogs that they can share the other sofa instead sleeping close to me 🙂 🙂
Can You see the spiderweb?
I’ve just baked a bread and for once I let it rest and not take a slice or two just after bringing it out in to the world 🙂 So as soon as I’ve done this blog I’ll have a slice or two together with that last cup of tea for the day 🙂
We’re having a really nice afternoon/ evening. Just below 20C (68F), a weak wind blowing (therefore a lots of flies flying around), birds singing and I’ve had my two first strawberries 🙂 To be honest it would have been better to wait a day or so because they were pretty sour 🙂 🙂 🙂
The cattle are now walking in the fields again so we can’t walk everywhere we want to at the moment, like following the creek down-stream. Also there are so manytickso now that high grass is a no no to walk in. Last time we did I picked eight from Malkolm as soon as we came home and six from Alma. I once had two dogs that had a bad reaction on those drops one drop in the neck so I try to avoid using that on my dogs, especially a stressed dog like Alma. Thankfully I do pick off most of them after our walks.
They say our weather will be on and off when it comes to rain, we do need it but I do hope that the temperature doesn’t drop down to arctic temperatures again, after all it is summer now 🙂 🙂 Last week, the night before midsummers eve the night was clear and it wasn’t dark at all. The sky was deep red closer to the ground, then a thin layer with orange slowly turning to a pale light blue colour. Not a star could be seen and we had so much light that I didn’t need to use the high beam on the lights. Unfortunately that changes quickly now but it was nice to drive home at night without it bring pitch black.
I’ve just pad my bills and I always feel a bit sad doing it but then it changes to happy since I know I won’t have any more bills until next month 🙂 🙂 It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I wish I had some cookies but I ate the last one on Sunday. I don’t have the energy to bake any new ones and most of the gluten free ones one can by is an abomination to any living thing 🙂 I wonder if they actually do taste what they bake or that they really don’t care because it’s not their fault we can’t eat normal cookies 🙂 🙂 🙂
Scandinavian hot today, 25C (77F), thankfully a wind is blowing to cool it down. Then again warm air dries out the ground even more so it’s sort of a damned if I do damned if I don’t situation for nature. They say we’ll get some more rain tomorrow evening though and the temperatures will drop some as well. The good thing though is that the laundry dried up in less than ten minutes 🙂 🙂
I will be surprised if the peach tree survives next winter, It is hit by leaf curl disease and this time it’s the entire tree. I’ve heard peaches usually can handle it when the tree is older but I’ve had so many peach trees dying because of it so I doubt it.
I’ve tried to remove this rose so many times that even I am beginning to give up now, it’s a garden variety of the Cinnamon rose and happily spreads via its roots.
Soon I’ll have my first strawberry 🙂
I know that for many of You 25C (77F) is like a cool summer morning but up here in the north that used to be as high the temperature rose in summer with, of course, the occasional heatwave passing by a day or two before we had more rain 🙂 🙂 🙂 I can’t remember if it is two or three years ago the temperature never rose above 20C (68F) during the month of July and we had at least some rain every day that month. To be honest I didn’t complain even though I did get bored by it before the vacation was over 🙂 🙂 🙂
The potato sprouts I planted has now grown so high that it was time to fill up the entire bucket with soil. It will now produce potatoes along the stem that was just buried in soil. I doubt there will be many per stalk but they usually grow a bit bigger instead.
Three pots with sown rhubarbs. They are so easy to sow that it would have been surprising if even one seed didn’t germinate. Can’t eat any next year because the plant will need all leafs to grow bigger, but the year after that I can start harvesting 🙂
I’m still rather tired today but I guess it’s the combination of one week with high fever followed by a week with evening shift that sort of takes its toll, plus of course the warm weather itself. I’ve tried to not sit still too much, so I’ve done the laundry, started dinner for next week in the slow cooker and now I’m waiting for a bread to be ready to be taken out of the oven. This time I skipped the cheese but have plenty of rosemary in it. Also today I’m trying Teff flour, a cereal growing mostly in Ethiopia but I’ve heard they now grow it in a lot of places. I have used it once a long time ago but can’t remember how it tasted.
I have lots of the creeping bellflower in my garden, over here seen as one of the worst weeds there is 🙂 They are beautiful though and if too many just eat the roots, works great in a salad like radishes would.
I couldn’t for my life figure out what it was I had sown (name tags of course gone 🙂 ) Then I suddenly remembered it, garden varieties of the purple coneflower 🙂
This is truly surprising! Do You remember me telling You about mice chopping off both Giant sequoia seedlings and my Pawpaw seedlings? All looked dead to me but I saved them just in case it would produce new branches. I’ve mostly neglected this one but watered it every now and again. To my very big surprise this morning I noticed that it actually is alive and is producing new branches again 🙂 🙂 🙂 I will take very good care of it from now on 🙂
Not even the dogs are especially active today, they’ve played some but mostly they’ve been napping. I’ve always wondered how thick furred dogs can survive in a warmer climate than what it is here, most of them are knocked out already in our temperatures. We now have loads of insects here but surprisingly few biting ones, that may change quickly now if we actually get the rain that se we’ll get. Not many butterflies though but plenty of different bees and at the moment they are all visiting my wild roses 🙂
Magpies, beautiful, smart, funny and probably one of the most annoying birds there is 🙂 🙂 🙂
Sand cherries, so tasty but it’s hard to get any because of the birds 🙂
So yesterday was midsummers eve and that’s a big day here, treated like a holiday even though it’s midsummers day that is the holiday. Still very few work on midsummers eve and most of us is payed as if it was a holiday. Also the last holiday here until Christmas.
Mock orange.
The potatoes grow well now.
Eastern redbud. Doesn’t like it here at all.
Back in the days everyone danced around the midsummer pole and many still do but mostly because of the children. We dance around it while singing almost the same songs we do when dancing around the Christmas tree, like the little frogs, the priests little crow and Anders Persons house is on fire (he has actually existed and is said to have been a truly nasty person and no one was sad seeing his house burning down). The history of the midsummer pole is and has been under debate a very long time but I think it used to be a German tradition.
If You want something that spreads happily, smells rather strange and will flower until frost comes the Nepeta sibirica should be You choice 🙂 🙂
After dancing around people went home to have the traditional lunch/dinner. We swedes aren’t that uneventful when it comes to the food so it is more or less the same as what we eat all other holidays 🙂 🙂 You can’t celebrate midsummer without freshly boiled new potatoes and they should be boiled together with lots and lots of dill. Five gazillions of different pickled herring and either pickled or smoked salmon. For us that can’t stand the herring (and we are really few people) there’s always meatballs, a couple of different sausages, oven omelet with mushroom stew and perhaps some chicken as well. Naturally we also have different kinds of hard bread and normal bread plus different kinds of cheese, both the regular one and blue cheese and brie/ camembert. What never is missing is the cream-layer cake with Swedish strawberries. If You would happen to have strawberries from another country (mostly because the Swedish ones are nasty expensive) You will be seen as a person with little or no value to mankind 🙂 🙂 🙂
When the evening comes the old folklore comes to live. So if You are young and not married yet You can actually learn to whom You one day will be married to. This must be done while being totally quiet of course. You’ll have to take a walk in nature and, depending on from where You come, either climb over seven or nine walls/ fences and at each fence You need to pick a flower and of course it needs to be different flowers all the time. When the walk is done You’ll have to go to bed, putting the flowers under Your pillow and go to sleep so it is best to be one of those that actually remember Your dreams 🙂 🙂
My citrus trees was damaged pretty bad during the last frost but now they show new growth again.
The beings are also very active that night so never go close to a flowing water if You hear someone play the violin because that could be Näcken. They say he’s longing for company but ig he catch You he will drown You so I’m not so sure about the company part 🙂 🙂 He can also show up as a horse (Näckahästen), usually pure white, and trick mostly children to climb up on him. Once they are he’ll run strait out into the river and drown the poor kids. They do say that no one can play the violin like he so I’ve learned that one actually can ask him if he want to teach how to do it, there’s always a price to pay though.
Can’t be seen much but this basket is starting to fill up with nasturtium and peas.
The English walnut is growing slowly but steadily.
This is also the time to think of the coming winter and ones health. It is important to collect as much morning dew as possible this night because that can help You survive the long and hard winter. I’ve come to understand that dragging a sheet over the wet vegetation is the best way to collect as much as possible. When that is done one must save the dew in sealed glass jars and when winter comes and one feel a bit poorly just either add some dew to the bath water or perhaps mix it with lemonade/ tea/ coffee and that will make You better. I’ve never tried that but perhaps I should considering everything 🙂 🙂 🙂
One of the few Greater sea-kale that germinated and now I better protect it so the bugs don’t eat it.
This year the Rapunzel looks great. A bellflower where there once were several varieties for food. I think they taste like radishes.
The first potatoes are ready to be picked 🙂
It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I feel I’m slowly coming back to normal after a week with evening work. Tired as h… but I think by tomorrow I’ll feel fine.
The first day with evening shift works great, the second day really well, the third day is quite tiresome and the fourth is just nasty 🙂 🙂 🙂 So I’m so glad I mowed the lawn yesterday morning and the shopping today otherwise I’m pretty sure the mowing wouldn’t have been done 🙂 🙂 🙂
Today is Midsummer eve and most likely the biggest holiday here, I was planning on writing about it today but I’m so tried that it will have to wait until tomorrow. We have a quite wonderful weather here today, mostly sunny all day, 22C (71,6F) with a wind that actually reach my garden after the heavy pruning of the Hungarian lilac a few weeks ago. It was much needed and I really need to do more but that will be a job for later.
I drove to the grocery store in the village where I used to work at nine am and they played summer music (which must mean music that has been played a lot previous summers, not necessarily about summer though 🙂 I had the windows open and all smells in the world came in to my car. I only drove on small roads so the speed was slow and I enjoyed every second of it 🙂 I took slightly different roads back home just to be able to enjoy everything from the forest to big fields with wheat and corn flowers, no poopies though but I’m pretty sure they’ll be there in a day or two.
Every year since I moved to this region I’ve seen a couple driving around in what I think is a Morgan Plus 8 car. they have always been dressed in a British upper class style and she has worn a hat with a thin scarf holding the hat down (since it is a convertible) So I’ve only seen this couple those time we both have been driving around at the same time but also see them, like me, getting older. I met them early in May the last time and they looked just as happy as always. Today I was happy to see the car again but this time only the man was sitting in it and he looked well not sad but not happy either. I do hope the woman is healthy and living (they must be in their 80’s by now) because the car looked empty without her.
The village is quiet today, only the wind and the birds can be heard, not even the cats up at the farm fights. I noticed that the monsterkitten followed us in the to the wood shed when I was about to drive to the store, she refused to go out with me so she had to stay there until I came home. I left the door to the wood shed stay open when I returned home and let the dogs out from the dog house and naturally though the stupid cat (one of all her names 🙂 🙂 🙂  would run out but now this afternoon I started to wonder why she wasn’t with us pestering me for food. Turns out that she had stayed in the wood shed when I closed the door 🙂 🙂 Well at least she was safe all the time 🙂 🙂
It is time for some ice cream and a soda called Trocadero, a Swedish brand with a taste somewhat close to tutti-frutti. The sugar free is so much better tasting since it isn’t that sweet so it works really well with very sweet ice cream 🙂
Pawpaw seedling. One more is on the way but I think the two seeds I still am eating for to germinate won’t make it. Still two out of five seeds is still better that how it works in nature.
Pawpaw I bought as a three year old tree, seed sown. I also bought a name variety and that one is so much slower to grow.
The Chinese wisteria that I moved because it couldn’t grow close to the cottage seems to have down well during winter. It isn’t even supposed to manage this climate zone but it just doesn’t understand that 🙂
My red elderberry tree is in bloom.
Have a great day!
Strawberries, carrots, beetroot and also peas grow well together in the big box 🙂
I can’t pretend I feel especially well at all but I do still feel much better than I did just a couple of days ago. The fever is gone and most pain as well, the pain I do have is mostly because I haven’t been moving around especially much. As soon as I do move around it stops. I guess that’s because the fonts always are in pain anyway so all this lying and sitting doesn’t help.
We had a warm summer day here yesterday, a bit too warm for my liking but still rather nice. Today will be even warmer they say but also more cloudy. So the kitchen door was open for quite some time until a surprise shower passed by, after that it also became very humid so the door had to be closed. Then suddenly another one passed by and it became even worse 🙂 🙂
I’ve had one of those leaf cacti in my kitchen for years and I’ve never seen it in bloom, so guess how surprised I was to find this flower and buy the other dayI I’ve never seen white flowers on these, only red so I was sort of both really happy and still a bit sad because I thought they would be red 🙂 🙂 🙂
You know I told You about that deep red peony I had bought but the dogs managed to kick off the bud? So it is pink instead 🙂 🙂 Two wrong deliveries A creamy yellow that should have been ours white and one pink that should have been dark red. All peonies are beautiful is I won’t complain anyway, they were both on sale anyway 🙂
Yesterday the dogs decided they should pay my closest neighbours a visit  and they are allowed to do so but only when they are at home and outside. Suddenly I heard a ruckus of cackling chickens and called back the dogs as fast as I could. I wasn’t aware that they had chickens at all so I was a bit confused 🙂 🙂 🙂 Turns out that it was the newest neighbours down the road, well not the neighbours but their chickens 🙂 🙂 They had decided to make a visit to my neighbours as well 🙂 🙂 Nothing bad happened though and I was later told that the owner had come and scolded the chickens and they haven’t been here since 🙂 🙂 🙂
I have been hydrating a bit too well lately, what goes in must come out, so I’ve been up around every third hour during nights 🙂 🙂 🙂 I let the dogs out at the same time and I must say that being outside at night is really nice. Much cooler and fresher air and since I live this far north on this little globe of ours not especially dark either. The best thing though is that we so far have very few mosquitoes, the ground has been too dry this year, so not being attacked by them has been really nice. I haven’t even had problems falling asleep when we’ve come in again and that made it even better 🙂
It is time for a cup of tea and then open the kitchen for again so the dogs can go outside, Malkolm was so sad when he could’t go in and out as he pleased that he fetched his favourite toy, a big octopus and brought it to the sofa to sleep some more 🙂
Just a short one today. The fever goes up and down all the time but it looks like it goes down slightly more that it goes up 🙂 🙂 :-)Feel like sh.t but sleep away most of the day.
Yesterday morning was quite foggy but we had sunshine later in the day.
The dogs behaves amazingly well, before when I was in the sofa normally only one would stay with me and the other would jump to the other sofa. Now they both agree how to squeeze down just beside me, it Geta a bit warm I. can tell You 🙂 🙂 🙂
A rainy afternoon and a cloudy day before that but sometimes the sun managed to shine through the clouds when they were a bit thinner, So I sat on the kitchen stairs for a while so the dogs could play in the garden. They do need to get rid of their energy some way and playing is the best I think.
Pawpaw.
Red oak.
Buds on the Laburnum.
Buttercups everywhere now.
I’ll make a pot of tea now and after that I’ll shower my head and neck with cold water and it feels so good afterwards.  After that I’ll most likely fall asleep with the dogs in the sofa again 🙂
I’m feeling like sh.t today, no fever though so I hope this will be better tomorrow when I go to work. I’ve eaten lots of honey and been drinking a lot of tea but most of all I’ve been sleeping in the sofa a lot. It gets really warm when two dogs decide to share the sofa with me 🙂 🙂 🙂 No walk today but we did walk around yesterday so the photos comes from then.
Chamomile.
The road associating meeting went smooth and quickly and after that we just sat and talked. I gave up after one and a half-hour and I think the rest stayed for half an hour more. It bis a good way to learn to know other people in the village by going to these meeting even though they’re only once a year. Especially when they go as well as it did yesterday, then again one learns a lot when there are fights as well even though that was long ago that happened 🙂
Some sunshine today, some rain as well and when the sun showed it became so warm that it felt like walking in to a steam bath 🙂 🙂 The dogs have been going in and out of the cottage all day but I had to shut the kitchen door when the clouds became too thick. I’ve done my laundry and dinner is cooking in the slow cooker and today those were the shores I had to do.
I started to cut away big chunks of the Hungarian lilac yesterday. Still thick branches left but I’ll have to use a sw to get rid of those. When I had done that I realised that I could plant the potted gingko tree there. Didn’t go especially well because there weren’t a lot of roots in the pot, the tree managed to fall down leaning heavily towards one direction but a top branch is now instead pointing upwards so I just let it be as it is. Now I think I only have one red mulberry tree left to plant, five pear trees and possibly an apricot as well. I was thinking about possibly plants the trees as trellised but seed sown trees usually grow really high and there will be a lot of pruning to keep them low enough so I’m not sure but I will have that in mind when it is time.
It is time to check the dinner in the slow cooker and after that I’ll make a pot of tea 🙂
I think this is a Welsh poppy. It is said to behave like a bad weed but not here. I sow it every year and all I’ve gotten is two or three that usually dies during winter despite it being a perennial.
I always complain about not being able to remember my dreams, I think I’ve done that at 5 times as maximum. However I do remember the dream I had last night and I was so annoyed that I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t fall asleep again 🙂 I dreamed that there was a tiny black and walking all over my back and when ever I tried to get rid of it it rushed out of reach 🙂 🙂 I even tried to squash it by lying down and rub my back towards the bed 🙂 🙂 🙂
When I woke up I realised that I now have a cold and a slight fever. Lots of people have it now but it seems to be short lived so my guess is that it’s over by Monday. My entire body hurts, especially my neck and head and since I can’t even eat anti inflammatory pills for children I have to rely on coffee 🙂 🙂 I’ve had too much coffee today so all I can do is to wish that it’s over by tomorrow.
If You look carefully You can see the monster climbing in a bush. She tried to surprise a magpie youngling and all magpies just laughed out loud 🙂
I checked my lottery tickets on Wednesday evening. It is called Lotto and one has to pick to seven numbers out of 35. They’ll also draw four extra numbers that if one has six right and one of the extra numbers one win a bit more. You won’t be rich by having six right and an extra number but You would still be very happy. The big money is in seven right, then it can be millions we’re talking about. Well I got four right and then three of those extra also were my numbers. So technically I had seven right numbers but in the wrong way 🙂 🙂 🙂 So instead of millions I won what would be $ 2 US 🙂 🙂 🙂 I didn’t even get annoyed, I just laughed out loud 🙂 🙂 🙂
Rainy day today but we have actually had some sunshine as well. A bit chilly though but I’ve been outside wearing a sweater just so I  could get some fresh air and feel a bit less sick 🙂 The dogs and I stayed outside for quite a while yesterday evening. My lilacs have weak branches so when ever it rains they hang down so it is impossible to walk beside them to get around the cottage. So all evening yesterday I pruned away all branches that hangs low. I also cut away those being behind the huge roses and bled quite a lot after that 🙂 🙂 plus I opened up around the Red oak so it gets more light and air. So now it’s like a tunnel behind the roses and both I and the dogs can walk there now 🙂
Now I can pass without being drenched every time it has rained.
I can also walk where You see Alma.
It continues on the other side of the gate.
It ends in my woodland.
These are the roses from the other side 🙂 No one can see me from the garden and no one from the road because of the lilacs 🙂
I think it is time for another cup of coffee but before that I’ll have some honey. I’m so tired right now that I doubt any  amount of coffee will keep me awake tonight 🙂
My car is almost clean after all this rain we’ve had lately 🙂 and tit will stay clean for at least this week out because we’re getting more of it. It’s also still reasonable warm so the only thing that bugs me now is that mosquitoes will become many more, so far I’ve only had three of them trying to drink my blood.
The old strawberry plants flower now despite being trampled by both dogs a a little monster 🙂
Columbines comes in most shapes and colours.
We’re having our annual road association meeting this Saturday and I’m usually chosen to be the secretary of the meeting so I needed to write the meeting protocol today. Always a good thing to give angst but to my very big surprise I had already done it 🙂 🙂 Normally it is the angst that kicks me to do it, so I think I’ll do the same this year 🙂 🙂 Now days the meetings are calm but back in the days they were feeding the rage in people and a meeting could take hours, mostly because there always were people who wanted to discuss other things than the road. All of those are gone so now days a meeting usually takes fifteen minutes and after that we drink coffee and chat 🙂 🙂
A Nanking cherry and there are several more on both the bushes. Unfortunately it seems to be easily hit by different pests and my two bushes look so sad.
The first strawberry! These plants have been a bit odd since they usually only give berries in autumn, looks like that has changed now.
People are normally not interested in coming to these meetings, as long as things works and they don’t have to pay any money they just don’t care. Now we’re also having the meeting on a Saturday, the day after our national day so I doubt many will show up. Since we now days also only get our mail every second day most people doesn’t even check their mailbox more than once a week so my guess is that most people not even knows we’re having the meeting 🙂 🙂 🙂
New growth on my hardy rosemary plant! Normally rosemary plants die here if I just would think winter but this is supposed to be the hardiest there is and so it looks 🙂
Time for that last cup of tea and tomorrow is the last work day for the week. After that I’ll have one full week and the week after that a short one again because of midsummer. Midsummer eve isn’t a holiday at all but since they place it on a Friday every year and it most likely is a bigger day than Christmas Eve here and no one wants to work that day it’s treated like a holiday and we’re also getting full pay that day. I’ll write something about our folklore and traditions here that week.
Jerusalem artichoke. A beautiful but rather weedy perennial sunflower (almost if not all perennial sunflowers are weeds, spreads like wildfire to be honest). There’s only one variety that manages to flower here and it is called Bianca.
Our wild Wood even. Each flower doesn’t last for long but it keeps on making more. Unfortunately the seeds have small hooks, like velcro, so it spreads really easy. Also easy to keep control of it since it doesn’t spread via the roots.
New leafs on the Gingko.
So it is tree peony leafs that shows but I doubt it will give any flowers this year.
I’ve had a really nice day, the morning was rather chilly, only 4C (39,2F) and there was a layer of clouds early showing the sun, so the first thing we did was to jump in to the car so I could deliver invitations to the road association meeting we’ll have next Saturday. We drove away at 6 am so there wasn’t a car on the roads outside the village. The castle has properties in the village so they need an invitation as well, and not a single human could be seen in the village 🙂
Alma didn’t like the drive at all even though I drove so slow that she had the time to see everything happening in the village and outside as well. It wasn’t until we came back towards home that she suddenly thought it was a good idea to take a nap in the back seat 🙂 🙂 🙂 The sun did eventually show itself and we had a really nice weather until around 5 pm when clouds arrived and rain with them. Mostly it was a nice summer rain but every now and again torrential showers passed by, I had small lakes even in my garden despite the ground mostly contains of sand.
It’s a short work week once again because we’re having our national day on June sixth. They do try to make us a bit more patriotic so that we like in so many other countries go out and celebrate it on the streets but most of us just take it easy, perhaps having a barbecue or a picnic. If we do feel like having a small celebration we’ll watch what they show on tv, there’s always some show on our PBS (the biggest network we have) where the royal family sits in the audience 🙂
It’s a bad aphid year here.
I better stop here because there’s a massive thunder front coming this way, I just heard the rumble and it’s not many km or miles away now. First thunder for the year here and I do like a good thunderstorm 🙂
The Cottage by the crane lake. 