Seasons Diary

Berry bushes are doing good in our yard. Gooseberries and red currants alike. Black currants not so much. And the bumble bees are buzzing around. Funny I haven't really seen them too much until ...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/06/berry-bushes.html

The longest day of the year was a couple days ago. Not that the days are too short plus/minus a month or two from it either. Summer is a bit of a fickle thing in June. Sometimes the weather is g...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/06/around-longest-day-of-year.html

Come summer (according to the calendar) and the weather turns cold again. Our first week of summer saw strong winds, even a storm in central and northern parts of Finland and day temperatures of...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/06/first-week-of-summer.html

In bloom right now!

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/05/lilacs.html

Spring is turning to summer. Apple trees were at their best last week and now have dropped their petals. Lilies of the valley have filled the forest behind our house. Lilacs are in full bloom. D...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/05/all-sorts-of-flowers.html

Last year there was one primrose plant right next to our fence. This spring I noticed several more in the flowerbed at the edge of our backyard. Maybe they were there already last year too, cove...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/05/primroses.html

Apple trees, naturally, I still don't have that cherry tree I've been dreaming of since I was 12 and visited Japan. Apple trees in our yard are the next best thing, though. Extremely pretty when...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/05/from-blossoms-to-blooming.html

I was away on a business trip for a few days and when I came back home, our apple trees were full of green little leaves and pink little blossoms. The red currant and ghostberry bushes have leav...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/05/apple-blossoms.html

Spring has advances in leaps and bounds now that the temperature went from a couple degrees to 20C in one night or so. Tulips in our yard are happily blooming, birches have a faint green about t...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/05/tulips-and-leaf-buds.html

Our nature does not seaze to amaze me with its flexibility when it comes to the temperatures in spring. It has been real cold these past days, but the rain then and sun now have caused another b...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/04/green-stuff.html

Wood anemonies have started to pop out now too. Spring seems to be pretty late and slow this year, but the flowers are pushing out anyway. That's the way it goes here in the northern hemisphere....

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/04/wood-anemonies.html

It's the time of the year, when the yard changes every day. Today I noticed that our narcissi have started to bloom. There's also some blue flowers here and there. This bush at the edge of the h...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/04/more-flowers-in-yard.html

I absolutely love spring. When the first (and only, as far as I know) crocus opens its flower in our yard, when trees start to get their little buds, when an orchestra of birds chirp and wagtail...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/04/birds-and-flowers.html

Hepaticas have popped up here and there in the forest and next to our garage door.

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/04/hepatica.html

Over the past couple days snow has melted almost completely in our yard and now it smells like spring, looks like spring, even sounds like spring with the birds chirping way into the late evenin...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/03/first-flowers-of-spring.html

I travelled to Brussels on a business trip last week and though it was colder than usual, not much warmer that it has been in Finland lately, there was no snow and crocusi and narcissi had poppe...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/03/narcissi-and-crocusi-in-brussels.html

Yesterday and even last night we had a new snowfall. The temperature being above zero, be it ever so slightly, and the sun shining today warming everything its rays touch, even this snow is rapi...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/02/another-snowfall.html

It was a deja vu. We had heavy(ish) snowfall, nice white ground for a week or so and then came the plus degrees and rain. 

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/02/snow-melted-again.html

Only a week ago we had a good 40-50cm of snow here after the Sunday blizzard. Then the temperature rose above zero and it started to rain and now the snow is mostly melted away. The sidewalks ar...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/02/snows-gone-again.html

The temperature has risen some 15 degrees and is closing in on 0C. It's still a couple degrees below, so whatever rain comes down (and today is seriously does) is still snow. Almost perfect snow...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/01/snowy-but-less-freezing.html

The Siberian winter hit Fnland. Temperature dipped to -25C even here in Helsinki, and a whole lot lower up north. Our world froze and then it started to snow. Now it's "only" -13C - which felt a...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2016/01/wintre-wonderland.html

We still have no snow, but we have a lot of frost and ice. The air has been humid for a long time and now that it froze, the moisture froze into ice art on grass and the roofs of cars and everyw...

http://seasons.marilka.net/2015/12/frozen.html

It was wet. Then it froze. Then it started to snow. First real snow of the winter.

http://seasons.marilka.net/2015/12/first-snow.html

Yesterday we had the first real freeze of the autumn, and some icycles were hanging from the edges of drains.

http://seasons.marilka.net/2015/11/first-icycle.html

Sun sets real early now. I was out with the dogs right when the sun dipped below the horizon, making the clouds and horizon pink and gold.

http://seasons.marilka.net/2015/10/sunset-and-pink-clouds.html