22 March
This was the sight I would have loved to see through my window... in January, or at most during the first serious snowfall in Late January/early March.

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23 March, after it had snowed on the day before (ouch!).

An almond flower on a Thuja plant. I was impressed with the distance the flower had travelled in the air to land there.

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… and their amazing survival of the snow

I saved some of my snow photos to post as part of another story, the story of the plants that ended up under the snow:

27 February:
This is shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris). It should normally emerge in spring, but with the mild winter we had until the big snow fell, I saw some of these plants in ( Read more... )

And now it was finally time to say goodbye to the snow as it was melting slowly in the next four days. All but one of these photos were taken in my part of town ( Read more... )

And now I’m mercifully going to gather the best photos from the last two days of serious snow into one entry so that you won’t get them as separate entries… before I share the photos of slowly transitioning into spring, which are still going to involve some snow. :P ( Read more... )

Phew, I finally got these photos out of my mother’s phone (via an USB cable!). And then I didn’t manage to post them last night because I lost my Internet connection. :P ( Read more... )

Now join me for a walk to the new park on the next day, 28 February. it would have been a very enjoyable walk if it wasn’t so cold - or if I had put on my thicker winter coat, but I was fooled by the warmer weather on the way before. Yes, I’m so not used to heavy winters in my home town ( Read more... )

Phew, I finally managed to select most my favourite snow photos and edit some of them, so brace yourselves for at least two more post of the snow that lasted about a week and it took it another week to melt very slowly. Sorry, I know that some of you are very tired of looking at snow, but it is something so rare and precious for me that I just had ( Read more... )

Finally the second half - well, more than half - of the photos from 25 February (wow, if we don’t count the dusting on the day before, it’s been six days of lasting serious snow, in spite of a little melting now and then). And now it’s begun to really melt slowly, but surely; there was still plenty of it today, but I don’t think there’ll be ( Read more... )

These are maybe half of the "best of" yesterdays photos because I’m afraid I took too many to post in one entry (when I even manage to go through them all) - and I took even more today.

This is was the view from my window in the early afternoon of 26 February:


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