Foxy's
winter adventures
Part 72

The Easter holidays, 2015

Easter walk to the flower shop

Me taking pictures in the flower shop. I always feel so happy to look at the beautiful flowers
2015-04-02. They had Easter twigs with coloured feathers in front of the flower shop. You could buy these.
2015-04-02. Miniature daffodils. We can have these in the garden, but not yet. That's why people buy them to have indoors at the table.
2015-04-02. They also had grape hyacinths, both blue and white ones.
2015-04-02.  Snakes head, grape hiacunths and crokus
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2015-04-02. Easter decoration.
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2015-04-02. English Pelargonium.
2015-04-02. It's beautiful.
2015-04-02. Saintpaulia.
2015-04-02. White  Saintpaulia.
2015-04-02. This orchid was beautiful.
2015-04-02. Tulips
2015-04-02. I bought miniature daffodils and grape hyacinths.
2015-04-02. A close-up picture of a a miniature daffodil

An Easter walk by the River

2015-04-04. I took a walk by the river.
2015-04-04. It was bitter cold that day.
2015-04-04. A gull with a white head. (Larus canus)
2015-04-04. Goosander female
2015-04-04. Goosander male.
2015-04-04. The Bridge Park was free from snow again.
2015-04-04.Two ducks sleeping on the ice.
2015-04-04. There was snow on the ice. Funny footprints in the snow.
2015-04-04. It was so cold so the blue anamones stopped opening.
2015-04-04. The scilla neither opened.
2015-04-04. Two ducks were coming to me on the path. But this day I had no food with me.

An Easter walk at Gammlia

2015-04-05. Winter was not gone at Gammlia yet. There was ice on the pond and there was still snow and ice on some paths.
2015-04-05. There was still snow in the woods.

2015-04-05. Snow on the garden there the flax flowers grow in summer.

2015-04-05. They had decorated with en Easter rooster, made of twigs an cones.
2015-04-05. Another Easter rooster.
2015-04-05. This path was so wet so my boots were going down in the slush
2015-04-05. The had Easter twigs by the museum.
2015-04-05. In shelter near the entrance it was warm. Crocus were growing there. That made me happy.
2015-04-05. Crocus.
2015-04-05. It was beautiful!
2015-04-05. We had chicken with rice, asparagus and curry sauce to dinner.
2015-04-05. At night a beautiful ful moon was shining

Another Easter walk by the River

2015-04-07. The duck was waiting for food.
2015-04-07. More ducks came up from the river.
2015-04-07. This day it was warmer and al the blue anemones had opened.
2015-04-07. These flowers are so pretty.
2015-04-07. Gorgeous!
2015-04-07. Wood anemones.
2015-04-07. Scilla
2015-04-07. I found the first coltsfoots.
2015-04-07. I think this must be a scilla.
2015-04-07. Many ducks were standing on the ice.
2015-04-07. One duck is standing on one leg. They do this for keeping warm.
2015-04-07. Duck in the river. As it was cloudy, the river was coloured in grey.
2015-04-07. Duck couple.
2015-04-07. Still a lot of ice in the marina. No boats can be here yet.
2015-04-07. It looked rather dark and grey with the ice, the leafless trees and the dead leaves on the ground.
2015-04-07. A duck swimming in a channel through the ice.
2015-04-07. A duck standing on the ice.
2015-04-07. Suddenly all the ducks were flying away. Like they were scared for something. But there was nothing to be scared for. No other birds. Den these duck, who were on the ice were not so near the path.
2015-04-07. They started swimming back to the ice.
2015-04-07. More ducks standing on the ice.
2015-04-07. A parking lot. At the left the culture house. The high building is a hotel. The old building was before a storing house. Now they use it for music and activity for young people.
2015-04-07. The ducks were happy for the food. The male was quacking to me. He looked so funny. :-) 

He said: "Please come back soon". I said: "Yes I will come back soon".

2015-04-07. But I could not go back for a while. The weather was so bad with strong winds. It should be dangerous to go out by the river. How I missed the river. I was longing for spring.

                  It hurts when the buds burst.

Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-03-04