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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Happy day 2008 04 12
A glimpse of the arctic Finnish spring to you...
Today was the day of the first flowers to come up - the first two butterflies on the storage house wall... the first hours spent gardening... the first cups of tea in the garden... such a great day with so much happiness when it felt spring and you could believe that it will be summer again... sometimes in the future - and even here in the arctic...
A few photos for you:
1. Galanthus nivalis - lumikello (snow bell) in our odd language - the first flower to come up in the spring from the cold earth - sometimes even from under the snow. It flowers when everything else is still resting, or dead. And it is so heartbreakingly modest, and beautiful!
2. I made this perennial flower bed in New Year's Eve (!) together with Magdalena. Now the first bulbs are coming up - and even those old ones from the former bed seem to feel warm enough to rise their heads (left, outside the bed).
3. Part of the winter the garden table was stored in the storage house under the roof but the weather takes its share... I enjoyed having tea in the garden today though - I even enjoyed watching the table, mistreated by the arctic weather - that is the way it should be too and somehow to me it looks beautiful at this time of the year, the first spring day you can have tea in the garden... providing you wear winter coat and gloves and have a warm seat cover and woolen socks... :D
Please take care of yourself! Good luck with your projects! Keep your feet warm and dry!
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Michael Korda - "The more you can dream, the more you can do."
Friday, April 4, 2008
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