Friday Bliss #193 - My May Garden

It feels that the summer has finally arrived! In the beginning of this week the weather was gorgeous with summer temperatures at about 22 C. On Thursday it began to rain and will continue still for two days. But rain is welcome, because it has been very dry. I’ll share some glimpses of my garden this week. Plums and cherries are in full bloom and they look wonderful. The garden has not yet fully grown, for examples the hostas are just showing and many shrubs don’t have leaves yet.

I don’t remember the variety os these pastel tulips, I chose them because they were on offer.

They look better in real life than on the photos.

Tulipa sylvestris are delicate and beautiful every spring!

I replanted this flower bed last summer, interesting to see how it looks later.

There are coming among others Lilium martagon.

This vigorous Clematis Constance is growing along our house ladders.

It is not yet in full bloom.

With the kittens we have fun every day.

They are trying to catch bees eagerly, silly them!

I read this week Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout and liked it very much.

We have got great news: My husband’s granddaughter Noora is having a baby 

in late November  ❤︎ DH will be a great granddad. Isn’t it great!

Happy Spring Weekend!

Linking also to Frühlingsglück of Loretta and Wolfgang.

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Vanishing Beauty

My trees of Prunus domestica ’Sinikka’ bloomed this spring like never before. 

I got them at a plant exchange happening years ago. My trees are thin due to poor soil 

and they are very high, not an easy task to photograph... Morning sun gives a bit yellowish tone, 

but the blooms were pure white and they were a pretty sight against the clear blue sky.

❤︎ 

But all this beauty lasted only for a few days due to hot & sunny weather.

Theres a poem in every flower, 

a sonnet in every tree, 

a tale in every lifetime

its just for you to see...

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just listen for the music

that your ears cannot hear, 

just strain yourself for the melody

thats so far and yet so near 

- Arti Chopra

Spare a still moment

Every once in a while.

Take in the beauty around.

Take it in with a smile.

- A. T. Alabi

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold. 

Her early leaf's a flower; 

But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 

So Eden sank to grief, 

So dawn goes down to day. 

Nothing gold can stay. 

- Robert Frost

PARADISE
When I met you it was the most beautiful evening
The birds sang and the moon in the sky was glistening
You said let's go to the country, to our countryside
I was thinking, now this thing will work out

When we got there the flowers were blooming, smelling
The sea foamed like beer foams
Instantly went to the beach, took off our excess clothes
The atmosphere was so intoxicating

Oh if I could give you the most beautiful
This huge world of mine
But I won't do that
A brief moment should be enough
When I get to be by your side like this

We wrapped our bodies together, sand stuck to our toes
When we sunk into the intense rhythm of the sea
I guess you joked a bit, straight from mouth to mouth
This is what the grown-ups whisper about
❤︎ 

This is an iconing song from 1974 by the Finnish Rauli Badding Somerjoki (1947-1984)
He was not a handsome man, was very shy - but oh so talented!

And of course the whole Finland is excited about

our World Championship in Icehockey! Congratulations!

// WILLY-NILLY 

// FRÜHLINGSGLÜCK
// MOSAIC MONDAY
// IMAGE-IN-ING