I’m so happy to see some flowers already coming up. I have a pile of snow about one meter high in front of the kitchen window, but right under the window where it’s very warm when the sun in shining, the ground is already bare of snow and I found the first crocuses coming up! Happy days. And then I also checked one spot where I know the coltsfoot are the first to bloom and sure enough, in that about 2-3 sqm area which is free of snow, the coltsfoot buds are pushing through.

Walking in the forest, it’s also quite clear that one season is coming to an end. The snow crust is hard and as long as you can find some old snow mobile tracks which have frozen, it’s like walking on pavement. It’s easy, but it’s not pretty. The snow is covered with fallen debris from the trees, but I want to see the good side of that, too… it will help the snow melt faster when the sun heats up the debris!