Warmer, warmer… The spring is near, the spring is like here! – The nights have still been a bit colder, the temperatures have been around 0 degrees Celsius in the nighttime, but in the daytime it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring! – The temperatures have been around 10 degrees Celsius and now even between 10 and 16 degrees Celsius during the day.
First two pictures that I took by the lake Pyhäjärvi here in Satakunta region on Friday.
Okay, most of Finland still has snow, the northern part of the country like tons of it – well, that’s not even a bad thing, they have lovely spring days there, too, but just for comparison – here in the southernmost part of Finland the snow has mostly melted. But for example our lake Pyhäjärvi still has a lot of snow and ice and on it, an ice cover, but there already are some ice-free spots somewhere as well.
We saw the first butterfly for this year for us on Friday as well. Not here at home, but in our neighbouring municipality Säkylä. It was a peacock butterfly.
Tiny insects have already been dancing in the evening sun everywhere here, too.
Yesterday we found a new walking track for us, and it’s not even far from our home. 😮 🙂 We took the shortest route now first, just to see the place, the forest. The forest was mostly spruce trees, but there were also some pine trees and other trees as well.
Parts of the track were still covered with snow and ice…
…so it was a bit slippery with these old ‘bad ice skates’ of mine. But it was warm there, I had too many hoodies on me…
Ants, too, were already busy in the forest.
And we saw another peacock butterfly there. A charming, silent forest it was. Glad to have found it! It’s been there all this time, but we’ve noticed it only now. 🙂
And we saw the first coltsfoot flowers for this year for us, too. There were several coltsfoot flowers by the car park there.
And a few pictures that I took in our garden today:
The smell of the earth that is free of the snow now is lovely.
Swans have been flying and honking here, and we hear loud voices of water fowls every evening again, from the lake I think.
We planted many crocus bulbs in our garden last autumn. And I wasn’t prepared for flowers yesterday… 😀 But yes, we already found two yellow crocus flowers!
One in the front yard and the other in the backyard.
-Leena
