Carpeted with flowers - six/seven white petals and yellow stamens with a green centre. Zawilec gajowy - wood anemone (thanks Wilk Bury!) This is the wood directly adjacent to my działka.
Below: a stork between the apple trees. Leaves starting to appear - but no blossom yet.
Below: the road from Grobice to Jakubowizna - sandy. The word is that the local authorities wanted to have this road asphalted from end to end, but that would mean widening it to conform with road-building standards. Some landowners blocked this plan, because they'd rather put up with the discomfort of a muddy, rutty track than give up a few square metres of their land.
Back to my działka for lunch; here's the view (below) looking south towards the road, the new gravel drive to the eastern edge of the plot. Much landscaping work awaits!
Looking north towards the back of the garden. You can see the fence in its new position clearly (the electricity pylon was on the other side beforehand). And the gravel drive triangle, enabling easier manoeuvring of vehicles.
Left: a cold north-westerly wind hurried fingers of rain-cloud across the landscape; Jakubowizna avoided a soaking. Looking west to the end of my road across the tracks. Top temperature, just 10C, three degrees cooler than the average daily high for April. Despite the chill, the sun popped out from time to time, bringing cheer. Day's walking total: 13,400 paces. Frequent snap-stops so only 23 minutes of that counted as moderate- to high-intensity exercise.
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2 comments:
"Carpeted with flowers..."
Michael, I think that "zawilce" is the right answer.
@ Wilkbury
Excellent! Zawilec gajowy it is. Wood anemone...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemonoides_nemorosa
From Wikipedia: "[in the British Isles] it spreads very slowly, by as little as six feet per century, so it is often used as an indicator for ancient woodland.
Interesting - many thanks for the Polish name.
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