die Insel – island
(Ibiza <3 🙂 - the first glance)
German nature word – die Wolke, die Wolken
die Wolke – cloud
die Wolken – clouds
Dried flowers, a campfire, one knitted owl…
It’s a sunny weekend! And now that the spring is just around the corner, it’s starting to get miscellaneous again… 😉
It was finally time to take these friends outside for a pic yesterday. My dried peonies from last summer… beauties… lovely memories…
My dried flower crown from the summer of 2015 is hanging on a door window in our hall. What actually dominates this picture, however, is an unfinished door window curtain project. 🙂
Our garden campfire last night. It was warming so nicely in the beautiful but cold darkness.
I started knitting again. I love knitting, but I’m not always doing it. 🙂 And… I always need some practice with it. This, for example, is my first ever owl!
-Leena
Hear the blackbird sing – spring-like days
On Monday the sun was shining delightfully, it was warm. On Tuesday it was cloudy. And it was already very windy when we were taking our regular walk in the forest trail in the evening. The darkness fell and it started to sleet heavily when we were in the forest. And we naturally couldn’t feel the wind that hard there in the shelter of the forest, but when we came out of the forest, by the lake Pyhäjärvi, the wind felt already so fierce that it was almost incredible. It was a blast! ;D And the wet snow flakes were so huge for a while… Yesterday and today the sun’s been shining again, but it has been windy.
The pictures here I took today in our garden.
I noticed on Monday that one strawflower flower still opens its petals on a sunny day! 🙂 And closes them in the evening. I took this pic at around 8.15am today. And at 10.00 the petals were opening…
After I had taken the pic above, I started to really listen to the singing of birds, they were singing everywhere… Suddenly I recognized the distinctive voice of the blackbird! It is an enchanting sound of spring here in Finland!
Hmm…
The strawflower flower opened by 12.30pm. How beautiful! 🙂
The snow’s been melting all the time now…
Under our biggest pine tree.
It’s 4 degrees Celsius in the shade, but they say that it feels like -2, and it does – the wind is cold. But in the sunshine, it’s wonderfully warm there…
-Leena
Amaryllis leaves
My amaryllis today… She had four big flowers in total, during the second blooming in early February.
Already two leaves (the shortest ones) have turned brown, got rotten and dried up. I don’t know why… But there’s also a new leaf growing, again. And the longest leaf…
Well, the longest leaf is… long. 🙂 Hopefully it stays this way. At least I’ve been trying to take good care of my amaryllis… I’ve been trying to give it reasonable amounts of water and fertilizer.
So, just hoping now…
-Leena
Spanish nature word – la arena
la arena – sand
Spanish nature word – la luna
la luna – moon (or the moon)