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.

Hyvää viikonloppua ... Happy weekend

Olen siis jälleen mökillä pari päivää. Samalla kiitän kauniisti ihanasta tunnustuksesta jonka sain jälleen Zilgalta. Zilga antoi sen ystävyyden merkiksi ja sekös erityisesti lämmittää mieltäni. Vähän aikaa pidän sitä ihan itselläni kunnes päätän kenelle sen annan edelleen. Isot halit sinulle Zilga.



Käykää Zilgan blogissa. Se on hieno.



I am again heading to the cottage for a couple of days. At the same time I want to thank Zilga for the wonderful award that she has given me as e token of friendship (as seen above). That in particular warms my heart very much. I shall keep it for a while until I have decided who I will forward it to. A big hug to you Zilga.

Visit Zilga's blog. It is wonderful.

Metsäretkellä ... Walking in the woods

Olen poissa kotoota tiistaihin asti mutta yritän vastailla palattuani.

I'm away from home until Tuesday but will try to respond at my arrival.
















Tämän vappunaamarin kera toivottelen Hauskaa Vappua!
With this First-of-May masque I'll bid you all Happy First of May!

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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Country walks part II

I feel like lingering on in my little personal paradise island for a bit still. The summer cottage is on an island but reachable by car all year round as the island of Noto is separated from the mainland only by a narrow channel and there's a bridge going over it. Okay there's a lot of cottages there so it's by no means my personal space apart from the plot the cottage is on, which goes all the way down to the water's edge.

This time I want to present mainly some of the tree life on that island.


Silver branches


Huggingly weird tree trunk


A giant burl on a birch tree


Interesting root. Like a woman's buttocks.


Roots of a fallen tree


Mossy roots creeping over the forest floor


Roots in a brook. Or perhaps dinosaur feet?


The leaf buds of a wild rose


Coltsfoot in the grass. Flowers within the flower.


Cattail that has dispersed nearly all of its millions of seeds


A cute tree dweller that has lost a big part of its grey winter coat. Soon it'll be all red.


A little imsy wimsy spider running on a stick


This is my older brother, who also came to the cottage for easter as his wife was in Japan on business. We don't live close and he's a very busy working architect so it was really nice to see him. We're so proud of him.

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Kevään esiinmarssi ... The strides of spring

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Ihmeellistä ajatella, että vielä viime viikolla tuntui kovin talviselta.
Strange to think that only last week it still felt quite wintery.


Jäätön kanava ... An icefree channel


Omenankukan nuppu ... A bud of an apple blossom


Joo vanha lehtihän siinä on vaan kyllä ne uudet on tulollaan ... Okay there's an old leaf but the new ones are already budding


Ensimmäiset luonnonkukat, Leskenlehti


The first wild flowers, Coltsfoot


Pajut ei ihan vielä kuki ... The willow does not quite yet flower


Ei tietoa tämän pensaan nimestä mutta väri on ihana ... Don't know the name of this shrub but the colour is wonderful


Sammaleet kukkii ... Flowering moss


Uutta vihreätä alkanut kasvamaan ... New green growth showing up


Täynnä emikukintoja (Tervaleppä?) ... Full of catcins (Common Alder?)

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