Flowers and butterflies

The warm spring days <3 We went to this dog park at Pitkäkoski today, and the day before too. There's a whole lot of hepaticas blooming in the forests there, and coltsfoot too. Trees are opening their leaves, though I'm still waiting on the birches... Catkins and pussy willows are seriously flowering. Today, I saw the first butterfly of the spring too - a bright yellow one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our little garden, the chives are growing. And the first bumble bee here on our own yard, too.

 

The Vantaa river is flowing free, has been for quite some time and througout the winter at the rapids. But there is still some icy banks left in the shady areas.

 

Flowers and the sun

The crocuses in our yard are shyly starting to bloom. Coltsfoots by the sides of roads and fields already look like their best days are over, but they still were the first ones I've seen this year.

 

The Paloheinä golf course is still yellow and barren, but was bathing in sun today. Unlike the brookes in the shady parts of the woods; they are the last fortresses of ice around.