Onset of Spring
About 3 weeks ago, when the snow was still knee-deep (almost unbelievable that it did melt away so quickly), our Tradescantia blossfeldiana decided to bloom (I wonder if it has a simpler name). A pretty little white flower, it opens a new one almost every day, and old ones wither off (it has also grown an additional set of flowers by now).
Then, last week, the snow...
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... was almost gone. The world was bare and brown, but birds filled the air with their voices and the landscape that should have felt barren and forlorn was filled with the sweetest kind of delight and expectation.
In the evening of that day I saw a fog roll in from the sea. And some time around that time we had also had our first thunder of the year.
And of course all this snow had to go somewhere, not to mention the countless small ponds puddles everywhere. I snapped a quickie of the flooded riverside walking and sitting area near the Tartu bus station this morning, before taking the bus to Tallinn. A gull is sitting on what used to be the riverside railing protecting one from carelessly falling in the river. The water level is said to be highest since year '56.
Then, last week, the snow...
(
)
... was almost gone. The world was bare and brown, but birds filled the air with their voices and the landscape that should have felt barren and forlorn was filled with the sweetest kind of delight and expectation.
In the evening of that day I saw a fog roll in from the sea. And some time around that time we had also had our first thunder of the year.
And of course all this snow had to go somewhere, not to mention the countless small ponds puddles everywhere. I snapped a quickie of the flooded riverside walking and sitting area near the Tartu bus station this morning, before taking the bus to Tallinn. A gull is sitting on what used to be the riverside railing protecting one from carelessly falling in the river. The water level is said to be highest since year '56.