Today has been the (this) idealist's conceptualisation of a perfect day in respect of the weather. One is entitled to say this after last year's heavy and prolonged 'rainy and flood season' that merged into the winter. The winter seemed to be a year long! The 'culture shock' of a day of unninterrupted sunshine, clear blue skies and heat - heat! At 11-00 am the sensor for our electronic thermometer (which is mostly shaded on a window ledge above the rear veranda where it overlooks the lake and the sentinel suggestive forms of the Birch Trees) showed 35.6 C.
The max/min reading during the day showed 37.5 C. It was enough to dissolve that chillness which had still been careering recklessly around upon whatever breeze took it's fancy without any thoughts of holiday or migration.
It's been quite a wait for such a day. The summery suggestiveness of a true spring day is late this year, about 10-14 days at least according to my photo library from the previous two years. Speaking with my brother in England I was also amazed to learn that it is late there also. 8th May and no sign of any leaves on the Horse Chestnut tree across the road from him. Meanwhile, across the road (for road read valley) from us the whispered gossip of Spring I spoke about the other day shows every manifestation of becoming a rowdy political meeting (topical comment due to the announcement of election day in the UK).
There are defineable signs of a mass gathering of greens threatening to chain react into the usual explosion of Spring that has held me in awe of it's rapidity ever since I came to Scandinavia and especially to this house. It's kind of 'one week it isn't, then next week it is'. A veritable blitzkreig of bud bedecked, blade bestowed,blossom bountied beauty.
The Sweden Experience has so many, many highlights but somehow the outbreak of Spring splendour is about the finest in my mind. I cannot imagine to live in a place without a tree that speaks, each year, to me of the sheer magnificence, the incredible wonder of the variety of this life's experiences. Of the miracle of rebirth and re-creation.
This life is a truly amazing realisation of conceptualities in all their forms.
Oh, and just in case anyone wanted to know....I was up before sunrise again today...and have the pictures to prove it :):)
I sincerely hope your day was as beautiful as mine has been today :):)
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