It’s been raining a lot since the night before Thursday. The ground is completely saturated and when the sun came out at around noon, the air was very humid which added to the warm sunshine – t-shirt warm! Without a shadow of a doubt, the warmest day of the year so far. But it’s just a blip in the weather, the raining will resume tomorrow and the temperatures will go down, but I didn’t really need that kind of encouragement to enjoy the good weather while it lasted. I took a break from the flowers (which was easy because there aren’t that many around) and just walked around to see what’s happening in nature. And I wouldn’t go a whole day totally camera-less in these conditions, so I went to the Hembygdsgården in the evening to catch some building details in the warm light.

My favourite lily of the valley location is right next to Hembygdsgården so I had a look at them, the leaf buds are about 10cm tall already. And then I found a flower – a tiny common dog violet. Sweet!