This Himalayan primrose grows about twenty centimeters ( eight inches) abowe the ground and blooom already. The one I have in an ordinary flowerbed at ground level has not even started to show yet. Think what that little distance can do.

All my life I´ve been an early morning, early evening person, but latly that has changed. Nowdays I´m a late morning early evening person. That disturbes me some I have to admit, it feels like i´m loosing a great bit of the day. Early nights doesn´t bother me much, but I do miss the mornings a lot. I miss going out just as the chilly morning air slowly starts to heat up. I miss being the one scaring the cranes and doves up in the air when I surprise them when they don´t expect me to come. I also miss sitting on my kitchen stairs before even the farmers has gone up to start milking their cows, listening to the wall of sound from all the birds singing.

I thought it was the birch that had started to get leafs, but it´s the willow in back of it that flowers.

I could of course set the alarm clock early but that´s not the same thing is it? Perhaps this changes later this spring, when the sun goes up so much earlier and the warm weather makes me have the bedroom window open all night and the cranes shoutings will make me get up as it´s as loud as my firealarm :-) Anyway, until then I will miss my early mornings.

I was at the store in Gudhem this morning and saw this windpowerplant behind the petrolstation. When it first started to spin it really made a lot of noise. But now they have adjusted it so I couldn´t hear it at all :-)

It´s a long time since anybody worked at the petrolstation, so nowdays they decorate the little shop with different stuff. This spring it´s old things like these weighing scales.

But I´ve never been much of a night person. Of course when I was younger I could stay up all night out with my friends. Having a beer or two (or perhaps more :-) ), missing the last tram home, so I had to walk all the way home sometimes up to 20 kilometers (12,5 miles). If it was late summer perhaps walking through villa areas nicking an apple or two from trees close to the sidewalk :-) Those times I came home just about the time I usually got up, so I slept an hour or two and after that felt brisk as a lark (don´t know If You have that expression).

I also passed the lake on my way home. There´s not a lot of cranes left now, just a couple of hundred I think.

Nowdays, if I stay up late at night, I might get up around eight in the morning, but I wount feel like a human beeing until a couple of days after :-) Well that´s life I think and I can take that, but I sure do miss my early mornings.
Have a great day!

My little Rhododendron dauricum has opened its first flower now, but more is on the way. Today I´ll sow even more rhododendrons, two species from the USA.