A Sure Sign of Spring

Wood anemones in bloom everywhere.
A sure sign of spring!

Linking to Mosaic Monday

Phew

This heartbreaking sight met me at the recycling station earlier this week. Is there a shelter somewhere for homeless teddy bears?? … Anyway, he was gone this morning (destination unknown) …

Today was Spring Clean-Up day where I live, which means they come with a couple of extra trucks, where (during a couple of hours) we can leave things that don’t fit in the usual recycling bins. As I still have a little bit of a walk to the recycling station (about 15 min there and back again), and can’t carry very much at a time, I spent nearly two hours this morning “recircling” myself between there and my basement storage room...

Afterwards I felt almost as tired as Teddy looks… And of course as soon as I got back to the flat after the last turn (and it was too late), I found a bag of discarded small electronics that I had spent part of the morning looking “everywhere” for in vain. (You know, the good old syndrome of putting things where you should easily find them… and then you don’t! I had almost come to the conclusion that I must have got rid of them already although I could not remember when or how!)

I wish they had these days a bit more often…

Linking to Shadow Shot Sunday 2

BTT: Unread

Booking Through Thursday

“What proportion of the books you own are unread?”

I’d say that perhaps 20-25% or so of my books are of the “reference” kind rather than the kind you read straight through from cover to cover. Besides dictionaries and grammar books etc I have quite a few on for example history, religion and mythology that I have only used to look things up in - even if also some in those genres that I have read from cover to cover as study course books.

When it comes to novels, I don’t have many of those unread. Except on my Kindle… where I’ve collected lots of free ones in the last few years.

500 postcards

This is my 500th received postcard. It was sent from Malaysia, and travelled 9,633 km in 14 days.

This was the 500th of my sent postcards to be registred as received at the other end. It went to Belarus, and took 18 days to travel 1,005 km.

Learn more about Postcrossing here.

Mosaic Monday–Spring Flowers

Going for a walk in my neighbourhood on Saturday, I found a surprise field full of tussilago farfara,  also knowns as coltsfoot.

This area along the railway was cleared from brushwood a couple of years ago. Not sure if they are going to “do” something with it or just let it grow back. But for now, the tussilago seem to be enjoying their chance of spreading!

In sunny spots in the more park-like areas, the lawn daisies are showing up to greet the sun.

And also these (below). But I don’t know (or can’t remember) their name. Can anyone help? They are quite small, not much bigger than the little daisies.

I’ll be linking to Mosaic Monday.