Life around the wet element

In the wet parttime







Always in the wet















Mostly on the wet























Wet faith



Near the wet










Swollowed by the wet







Wetscapes



















Wet collecting above







There's been a lot of drought this summer and the temperatures have been soring around the 30 degree celcius mark for periods at a time without any wind so this wet theme is close to my heart at the moment.

Luckily a bit cooler now and some showers are also happening lately. Also mega thunderstorms reaking havoc in their way. Luckily not in the area I live. We have been spared these trombs (like small hurricanes) that have taken lives, caused tremendous damages to the forests as well as buildings and rendered people stranded with roads no longer visible under the fallen trees and without electricity for weeks on end. Without electricity no phone lines nor running water. Also cell phones are functioning very badly as the signal keeps dissapearing.

I beleive parts of Sweden were effected by similar storms last summer.

Still the worst conditions have been in Russia with extreme heat and those mega forest fires causing enormous black smog in Moscow.

Global warming is surely already here.

Wings

When the summer sun turns the sky nearly white it is nice to just sit and look up into it ...



... and dream of how it would feel like to float around high high up there

The blue of the sky where the sun is just in the opposite corner (if the sky can be divided into corners) is a gorgeous colour that one simply cannot get enough of ...







... and it is just fun to sit and do some plane spotting



even later on in the evening, when the colour has darkened substantially

Sometimes the sky clouds over but nevetheless ...



... it is nice to observe the wings up there



After a while the clouds might very well start to break up ...



... or take on a wonderful pink glow from the setting sun

Two steps back

I decided to return for a moment to the wonderful spring. Summer is of course the best season in many ways but spring ... that tantalizing time of promises of what's to come. The joy of the first little green shoots, of the firts vibrant bird song, of everything springing to life all around every single moment, of the rapidly increasing day light hours. Then suddenly - swish - it is all so tenderly green and lushious, perfect without the flaws appearing later on in the summer, insects are humming in the air, flowers are bursting into bloom all around. It surely is in that respect the very season to behold.

Therefore I'm publicising a collection of photos from the spring time in this post.


End of April. There is spring in the air but the sea ice has not yet broken.


As of yet the warmth from the sun is best enjoyed inside in a nice sunspot


Outdoors is still a bit chilly but in the sun and sheltered from wind the chill is not so apparent


Beginning of May. The ice has broken and snow melted away but as of yet the green things are dormant, but only for a few days


Yet splashes of colour are provided by these cute little fungii ...




and the first little spring flowers


On closer inspection the little 'mouse ears' on the tree branches are already there


Birds everywhere have a very busy time


Our 'city' fox is not so handsome when the thick winter coat starts to fall off


Within a week the picture is already quite different


The pond lily leaves have just surfaced but not yet aquired there summer green colour


Fish are playing in the shallows and seeking for places to lay their spawn ...


and gulls keep a close eye on the menu of fish


The farmers fields are plowed and ready to start bringing up a new crop


The days are long and light. The upper photo was taken half past three in the morning.


The wonderfully scented Lily of the Valley litter the woodland floor


The garden looks so delicious that one could eat it


Oh the joy of the glorious spring flowers


Like sunshine on the ground


God's own creation looks no worse


It is just as wonderful to view and fill the lungs with the freshness of it all








Everywhere it's bristling with life




Pretty little things come and join our garden habitat with us


Warm spring evenings invite to sit down by the water and enjoy the late sunsets


The dogs enjoy soaking up the sun during the warmest part of the day ...


after which it is nice to cool down by splashing about in the water


Then there's the time for some other activities. Each to their own.


Oh you tender spring time, you have gone for this year but I still remember the injection of vitality that you inserted in me