Spring Joy Planted!

Plantagen had the last spring bulbs on sale - take ten, pay for five.

It was a good deal and I found colors I liked. Let’s hope the bulbs stay safe

and that they’ll bloom beautifully. I am worried a bit because I have noticed that 

some animal - bird, squirrel - digs bulbs from the soil.

I’ll list the varieties here so that I remember them:

Spring Green, Purple Sensation, China Town, Queen of Night, Groenland,

Purple Doll, Akebono, Fritillaria mix & my husband’s choice Esperanto.

For Jutta’s Digitalart Dienstag a manipulation of Queen of Night. The original underneath.

A manipulation from last spring.

❤︎❤︎❤︎

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Friday Bliss #28 - Longing for Spring!

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: 

if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Yes, I deserve a spring - I owe nobody nothing.
- Virginia Woolf

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

 - Lilly Pulitzer

 Pardón y olvido ****, a lovely collection of short stories 
by the Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez (b. in 1942) / Cervantes Prize in 2017.

This is the first time his works have been translated into Finnish.
Some of his books have been translated to English - see Amazon.

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. 

The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.

- Millard Kaufman

Wishing you a beautiful weekend!
- riitta

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Friday Bliss #19 - Kukkien turvakoti

FLOWER SHELTER

I bought this huge lantern before Christmas, and it certainly comes in need.

It is on a table where Sissi takes her nap - and is sometimes furious scratching

because the flowers are behind glass out of her reach.

HERE the lantern with white Christmas flowers.

❤︎

A PHOTO MANIPULATION

Somewhere under the snow and ice, in the land of icicles 

the spring is waiting for new becoming...

Wishing you all a beautiful weekend!

- riitta

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Friday Bliss #18 - Beauty in the Polar Night

A few mobile shots from my early morning walk yesterday. One of the neighbours

has these beautiful fairy lights on her umbrella shaped elm ❤︎

Light in the dark polar night is so needed and people keep them till February on their yards...

This is my living Christmas tree, still bearing lights - a thuja Brabant at the house corner...

This week I read Aila Meriluoto’s poems - a writer who celebrated her 95th birthday yesterday. 

She wrote poems of this collection at the age over 80 - how great is that!

HERE some of her older poems translated into English.

We long lived women, ---

We never stop, we only live. Ruthlessly.

...

Let’s taste together pure this. Existence.

In clothes I don’t mind pink, but it is great in tulips ❤︎

Wishing you all a beautiful winter weekend!

- riitta

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Snow & Tulips

FINLAND TODAY:
Last night we got still more snow - a lot of shovelling - but it does one good.

My lilacs bear a lot of new snow - a view through the window.

My world outside does not offer any colors but the first tulips do ❤︎

Wishing you a happy Wednesday!

- riitta

// WEDNESDAY AROUND THE WORLD
// WILLY-NILLY

Floral Bliss #62

This week my photo selection consists of miscellaneous

colourful spring flowers.

Outside it is a bit warmer: this morning only -8 C; sunny but windy.

The spruce on the photo is an ordinary spruce that I have cut for 16 years.

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Floral Bliss #56

Hello my dear friends! Outdoors there is no floral bliss to be seen,
so I had to content with tulips again.
I bought white tulips in accordance with the snowy scenery..
But the tulips did not open beautifully. That is why I had to open
manually some petals and look at the beauty of a single white tulip.
I hope you enjoy the sight too.









Outside the scenery is pure white - and cold! -12 C

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