welcome spring

welcome spring

    April was a chilly month. We do not have the welcome to spring until the beginning of May. In nature, there has been a spring awakening for a long time. There is little greenery, so it is not visible. Many birds have not yet returned from their wintering grounds....
a short spring trip to the forest

a short spring trip to the forest

   Spring this year is late and cold, we decided to take a short spring trip to the forest. It was cloudy. It is difficult to count on very good photos. This forest is famous for its great flowering areas of anemones. Before the leaves appear on the trees, anemones...
a humble beginning of spring

a humble beginning of spring

    We already have one week of April, and I hardly notice this modest beginning of spring. Some early spring flowers have appeared. The grass is barely green. It was dry for a long time and with frost. Only the goat willow has developed its buds. Starlings, finches,...

The starlings have arrived, it will be spring

   Today the starlings have arrived, it will be spring. Although we’ve had frosts here recently, and they’re already here. First, these are a few groups. Then more of them come. I really like these birds in the spring from my childhood. I watched them on a...

Old trees are disappearing

    When I came here in 1972, there was a lot of greenery, mostly old trees dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. They were mainly linden, maples, poplars and ash trees.The trees give shade in the summer. Old trees are cut down, gales overturn. There are...