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My mood is right where it should
not be. I still wear my winterjacket
the days when it is warm and nice
has been very few.
I started to paint some at the wooden
part of our house. Every time it
starts to rain. I know now
I will have to plant new tulips
but not in the same place.

And some more from the city park ....

Hard to understand we had snow 3 weeks ago. The air is like ice..

A special kind of Birch called "Ornäsbjörk"

A little history about this tree ... I could only find it in the swedish
Wikippedia
Ornäs Birch was discovered in 1767 by the State Secretary Hans Gustaf Hiordt in Little Ornäs in Dalarna. He described the following year for Carl Linnaeus. He wanted a copy is sent to Uppsala, but this could not be arranged during his lifetime. Carl Linnaeus the Younger gave it its Latin name 1781st [1]

In 1786 published the local doctor in Hedemora Carl Magnus Blom an essay on Ornäs birch tree in the Royal Academy of Sciences New Documents. He thought it was a cross between birch and maple.

The Norwegian biologist Frederick Christian Schübeler (1815-92) published in 1885 a woodcut företsällande the original Ornäs birch tree in his Norwegian flora Viridarium Novegicum - Norway vaextrige, et Contribution til North Europe's natural og culturhistorie. This woodcut was based on a now lost photo of the birch tree that was 1878th Otherwise there is no photo of the original tree, which fell in a storm in April 1887th

Before the mother tree fell, propagating material had previously been taken from it. Anyone who saw to it that Ornäs birch spread Experimental field was then chief Erik Lindgren. He had brought scions from birch at Little Ornäs and successfully reproduce in the Experimental field nursery in Frescati, and a couple of his Ornäs birches are still there. All of today's Ornäs birches probably derived from this propagation.

Ornäs Birch was appointed in 1985 to Sweden's national tree, and has since been planted in most Swedish municipalities in one central location. This widespread planting can follow the tree phenology, ie the timing of bud eruption and more. .

The picture is taken from our city tree ...and I translated the text from Wikipedia.

Dandelions so many every where and no one likes them. True survivers they will never die
no matter what we do. There is one reason I love this flower.
We have a saying "Dandelion child" A child that has grown up doing fine even if the childhood
was nothing. A child without love from home but is getting love from somewhere else.
Flowers growing under hard condition, comes back every year no matter what ...

Appleblossom


Oh now I am getting it...



Just because

I am sitting looking out of my mother in laws
window. She is telling my husband a story form life.
How her life was and What it was like for her parents. She is almost
90 years old.
A life so far away from today.

Today modern life everyone is running not having time
There is a car or two in every family. When she wanted to go somewhere
it was by bike or walking. Or by bus if it was okey. So many sisters and brother
To share and to remake clothing was not strange. She start to laught
A memory from when a dress was about to be changed into trouses for a boy
(The boy was not too happy)

Looking at one of the birds in her window,

while I am listening. The words are there "Free as a bird" "I have been there,
I was part of it" is flying through my head.
I am sitting there with a self phone in my hand helping her to get it
started. She is happy and understand how to do... Now she can call us from
everywhere......
We have come the the best part of the year.
It is flowers and it is getting green



This is a beautiful place




We had a long walk in the sun, but no icecream