In the evening sun

We went for a little walk in the evening sun, taking pictures of some flowers on the sides of the streets and of a couple of fabulous apple trees in full bloom. We stumbled upon a patch of grass, dandelions (not flowering yet) and other greens, and discovered it was full of snails!

Snails and spring flowers

Apple blossoms

Maple blooming

The maple tree on the neighbor's yard is blooming.

More surprise flowers

Some more surprise flowers popping up in our yard. Lilies? We shall see.

Herb garden is doing good

Our (herb) garden has got several additions in the past days: a pepper mint, a bhut (naga) jolokia, a patch of different salads and spring onions and garlic.

Greens are growing

It was another beautiful sunny spring day. Birds were chirping all day long, baby birds were learning to fly. Birches have tiny new leaves, grass is green. Our dill and chives are starting to sprout and salad is already growing happily.

New flowers in our yard

Wood anemonies finally found their way to our yard too. And there's a new bunch some surprise flowers pushing their way up from the ground.

Green on the trees

Today was so far the warmest day of this spring. I noticed small leaves starting to sprout in birches and other trees.

We planted some tomatoes, an eggplant and a medina chili plant. We also got some violets and marigilds for our patio.

First sprouts of salad

Salad is the first thing in our garden to sprout out of seeds.

Sun Tea :)

Sun Tea "brewing" :)

May Day celebration at home

May Day being the big spring celebration, we took out our garden furniture and had a splendid meal of "Vappu salad" on our patio, and had our first Strawberry Daiquiries of the spring, topped with fresh mint from our herbgarden :)