Spring is coming

Just in case you have not noticed, I have not been making a lot of blog posts recently. Hardly any, in fact. Well, the truth of the matter is that nothing much has happened. 
We did have some SERIOUS snow, about 50 cms deep and not the feeble 5 cms you get in the UK, a useless excuse for snow that barely covers the grass.  

We have now been living at our house in the village of Daveri since August of last year and that is more or less all that we have been doing. The pandemic is not over and maybe it will not really be gone until almost everyone on Planet Earth gets vaccinated. When will that be, I wonder?

The good news? Yes, there is some. Even after some serious snow, maybe fifty cm deep, the Coronavirus is not going to stop the return of the Spring. It is coming. 

We had a little foretaste today, when all of the snow finally melted and even the tulips that my dear Irena had planted at the bottom of the garden last year started to show some signs of life. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and it really did feel as though Spring is coming and Summer won't be far behind. And, just to prove it, here is a photo of our first ever snowdrop in Daveri for 2021.

  

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