Vielä kukat jaksaa tuottaa iloa ... The flowers will bring some joy still

Tässä siis viimeaikaisia kukkaiskuvia, sekä mökiltä että luonnosta. Samalla haluan kiittää saamastani osanotosta ja tuesta teitä rakkaat blogiystäväni. Olen nyt työharjoittelussa ja siellä kun on paljon ihania ikäihmisiä suuren avun tarpeessa niin sekin pitää kiinni arjessa kuten tietenkin ihana Ljuba koirani.

Here are various flower pictures that I have been taking lately, both from the cottage and in nature. I also want to thank all of you dear blog friends for the kindness and support I have received from you. I am now in work training at the moment and there are so many wonderful senior citizens in need of a lot of help so that keeps me hanging on to everyday life not to speak of my lovely Ljuba dog.

Luonnon kukkaisantimia / Nature's flowery gifts:

Metsä-orvokki / Common Dog Violet



Keto-orvokki / Wild Pansy



Suo-orvokki / Marsh Violet



Mustikka / Billberry flowers



Pikkukäenrieska / Least Gagea



Rentukka, Vuokot ja Kevättaskuruoho / Marsh Marigold, Woodanenemies and Pennycress





Kesämökin aarteita / Cottage treasures:

Tulppaaneita, Esikoita, Narsisseja / Tulips, Primulas, Narcissus

















Luonnonvaraisen ja viljeltyjen esikkojen (omatekoisia) risteytymiä / (Unintentional) hybrids between the natural Cowslip and cultivated Primulas





Jalokiurunkannus / Corydalis Nobilis



Kevätvuohenjuuri ja kyläilijä / Doronicum Orientale and a visitor



Vaan hän on se suurin ilonaiheeni / But she is my greatest source of joy



Aluksi hän etsiskeli kaveriaan tutuilta poluiltamme mutta ei enää / At first she was searching for her friend at our usual walk sigths but not anymore

Today's flowers No 40 - in memory of a lost friend

This Sunday meme is hosted by Luis Santilli Jr, Denise Gullickson, Laerte Pupo, Denise B. Castro
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My flowers today are my small miniature roses here in my little town garden. They are my tribute to my darling Luca who passed away on Friday and talk about my great sadness and loss.



I still find it hard to think about him without tears running down my cheeks and a great lump sticking in my throat but I did want to pay my little hairy friend this tribute here in my blog.

For myself I have chosen the Bleeding Heart and Forget-Me-Nots that were flowering in our cottage garden. No other flowers could express my inner turmoil better.



Also I will try to visit as many as possible of you but please don't be offended if I still haven't got the strength to comment very much.

Kaikenlaista ... All sorts

Kevääseen kuuluu pienet kasvinalut, jotka työntyvät mullasta ylös.
The spring brings new small plants pushing up from the soil.



Kevääseen kuuluu sininen taivas ja pitkät valoisat illat.
The spring brings blue skies and long light evenings.



Kevääseen kuuluu ensimmäiset puiden siemenriipukkeet.
The spring brings the first seed strands on the trees.



Kevääseen kuuluu perhoset.
The spring brings the butterflies.



Kevääseen kuuluu myös vesisateet.
The spring also brings showers.



Kevääseen kuuluu puiden kukinnot.
The spring brings flowering trees.


Vaahtera / Maple


Kirsikka / Cherry

Kevääseen kuuluu myös ensimmäiset ukkoset.
The spring brings also the first thunder storms.



Ukkonen saattaa myös tuoda mukanaan rajun raekuuron.
Thunder can bring with it also a hefty hail storm.



Kevätkukat saavat kestää kaikenlaista.
Springflowers have to put up with all sorts.



Kevät tuo mukanaan paljon uutta ja ihmeellistä uteliaan koiran elämään.
Spring brings a lot of new and wonderus things to a curious dog's life.



Erilaiset äänetkin kiinnittävät valppaan koiran huomion.
Different sounds attract the attention of an alert dog.



Kevät tuo mukanaan kalamiesten jättämät, ah niin herkulliset, kalanperkuutkin.
Spring brings with it the, oh so delicious, fish heads and guts left by the fishing people.

Today's Flowers No 39 - From the cottage garden

This Sunday meme is hosted by Luis Santilli Jr, Denise Gullickson, Laerte Pupo, Denise B. Castro
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Two hairy friends in front of the early spring tulips


Tulips and scilla


Close-up on tulip and striped squill


Single tulip


Daffodil


Close-up on scilla


Primula


The very first forget-me-not


Cowslip (a natural variety but welcome in our garden)

Today's Flowers No 38 - Some new ones

This Sunday meme is hosted by Luis Santilli Jr, Denise Gullickson, Laerte Pupo, Denise B. Castro
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I find wild growing mosses and other things in the forest as beautiful as those glorious products of man's creativity. The Heather in fact is carrying last year's flowers as they do flower in the autumn with pink flowers but still, the dead ones are pretty too.


I just love to follow the developments on those spring trees and shrubs this time of year even if everything in this collage is not just flowers.


These are all new arrivals for the week in nature except for the woodeanenemies. I had to incorporate them as I've seldom seen ones that pure blue and that thickly growing.


The gardener's joys. New ones are the Daffodil buds (I saw some that were partly open but liked this picture more), the Striped Squill (also called Puschkinia) and the Hyacinth

I shall not be home until Tuesday but will try to respond to you then at the latest. In the meanwhile thankyou for your interest.

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