Today was the first day of the year hot enough to leave home without a jacket in the morning. I drove Eddie to school for his his middle school entrance exams (results known on 6 May), and it was already +16C at half past eight.
Above: flowers in a grass verge, ul. Nawłocka.
Right: Apple blossom in our garden. Blue sky enhanced with a circular polarising filter. Compare to
last year's apple blossom time. The weekend was hot enough for a number of firsts for 2008; the first time the afternoon air smelt of barbecues, the first time a cool breeze was welcome, the first time I found myself getting sweaty while wearing only one layer. Its worth remembering that one month ago, there was still
snow on the ground. Having said that, a whole month from snow-on-ground to T-shirt-weather is quite a long time for Warsaw!
A meadow flower conundrum for readers with advanced Polish - the
dandelion (
above), as we all know, is
mlecz. The
daisy (
below) is
stokrotka. But what's
buttercup? The latter is also common across Poland, but I can't say I've ever come across its name before. I wonder why?
Today was the first day of the year hot enough to leave home without a jacket in the morning. I drove Eddie to school for his his middle school entrance exams (results known on 6 May), and it was already +16C at half past eight. Above: flowers in a grass verge, ul. Nawłocka.
Right: Apple blossom in our garden. Blue sky enhanced with a circular polarising filter. Compare to last year's apple blossom time. The weekend was hot enough for a number of firsts for 2008; the first time the afternoon air smelt of barbecues, the first time a cool breeze was welcome, the first time I found myself getting sweaty while wearing only one layer. Its worth remembering that one month ago, there was still snow on the ground. Having said that, a whole month from snow-on-ground to T-shirt-weather is quite a long time for Warsaw!
A meadow flower conundrum for readers with advanced Polish - the dandelion (above), as we all know, is mlecz. The daisy (below) is stokrotka. But what's buttercup? The latter is also common across Poland, but I can't say I've ever come across its name before. I wonder why?
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaskier_roz%C5%82ogowy
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