Ladysmith Black Mombazo (favs of mine) have a beautiful song about rain....in which the chorus line says 'never comes'. Well they should be here :):) Rain, lowered temp (8 C) and grey. Not that this stopped me from getting on with some construction work!
I have learnt that this location has it's own special beauty irrespective of the weather conditions: the sun reflecting off the lakeside and sending kaleidoscopic rhythmic patterns onto the ceilings and walls: the lakes (there are over 30 of them within a 15 km radius) talking to each other in pre-deluvian dinosauric moans when the winter freezings have rigidified their surfaces...or, today, the incredible rain-formed diamonds glistening on the trees and bushes.
Yep! Nature has it's methodologies. Across our little dale angels have been busy pointilising the barren trees with minute greens so that there is a whisper of spring starting to gossip through the forest. In the garden the Lilacs have started a rash of buddings and the blackcurrant/redcurrant bushes have joined the competition. Mind you, they have some work to do if they intend to catch up with the Rhodedendrons.
This area of Sweden is an absolute gem of nature.
Maybe I'll see the beaver soon (oh, it took up residence on our side of the lake, about 500 metres from the house, over a year ago. Have you ever seen one? It isn't much bigger than my cat...but, WOW, what this little thing can do with those teeth...he decimated a Birch tree colony, not far away, last year. We bought a lot of the downed trees...and they were our winter heating.
Now, there's symbiosis for you!!!! hehehehehehe....................................return to homepage