The Anemones and Hepaticas are relativly young species so they mutate quite a lot still. This is a blue Wood anemone. In nature one can find everything from pure whit to dark blue or red. Sometimes they are totally filled with petals and therefore sterile and sometimes the petals are green. The flowers can also be really small or gigantic, the biggest flower I´ve seen on a Wood anemon was five centimeters wide (2 inches) usually they are only two centimeters (one inch).

I woke up this morning feeling really great in my back, until I stood up :-) Now my neck and left shoulder has got the idea that I must know they exist too :-) But the day is still young, more bodyparts can get the same idea still :-)

I sowed a seed from a Paradise apple more than eight years ago and this spring it will flower for the first time :-)

It must have rained some this night I think. There was this cool fresch smell in the air and the grovel road looked slightly darker then it usually does. But perhaps rain is the wrong word, it´s more like someone have been spitting here and there from the sky and it has been no use for the vegetation, it was to little for that. The sky was cloudy and the wind bitterly cold when we took our morning walk. I thought it would be better walking in the forest but the wind got to me there too. My dogs ran around sniffing for what might have passed this night or ate things I really don´t want to know about. Finally the migrating birds seemes to have caught up with spring here. It has been unusually warm here and I don´t think that all birds sort of understood that down in Europe and Afrika. But today we once again have that eardeathening sound from all singing birds as we usually have hear at spring.

Can You see the little ladybird under the leaf on the sorbus flowerbuds? Brown with white spots. (Click on the picture to enlarge it so You can se it better) I´ve never seen a brown before. By the way, ladybirds are called "Key maids" in swedish.

I´ve told You about the swedish heats to the Eurovishion song contest here before, now it´s time for the european finals. The first semi final is at May twelve. Ten songs goes from each semi final to the big final that Saturday. Nine from each is chosen from the european viewers by televoting, but one from each is chosen from a special jury. They do so because some songs might need to be heard more than once to be liked. Stupid really if You ask me. I dont think that one more time will help them at all. The swedish song was chosen that way last year and it came way back amongst the last ones anyway :-)

Now my old plum tree has started to flower.

For those of You who doesn´t know, this is deadly serious for sweeds. The Eurovishon song contest (both all swedish heats and the European heats and final) is the most watched programs in Sweden, they even beat Donlad Duck on Christmas! and that says a lot. We have already heard the songs that will be in the first semi final and a small jury group has given their votes, those votes doesn´t mean anything in the finals it´s just for the swedish viewers. Tonight they start showing the songs from the second semifinal. This they do so all songs gets the chanse to be heard to everyone befor the competition. This jury of ours never gets it right though :-) Last years winned, a melodramatic song from Russia, didn´t get especially many votes from them. So if the jury dislike a song it will probably be one of those songs that will have a chanse to win :-) :-)

This little violet grows everywher in my garden. The smell is fantastic but so strong that my nose sort of shuts down for a while, can´t smell a thing after that for a couple of minutes :-)

I usually likes the songs from south eastern europe with a lot of influence from asia and the arabic countries. But this year Norway (Click on Norway and You´ll see the song on YouTube)looks like a winner ( I really think it´s great), at least up here in nothern Europe. It´s really good but I think Bosnia has a really good chance too. Sweden then? Well who knows There was a voting on the rehersals in Moscow last night and the true fans of this (and they aren´t many) seemes to have voted for our song. I´m happy if she reaches the finals, it´s tough to combien opera with discopop. The funny thing is that songwriters from other countries can participate in all countries competitions so usually ther´s a lot of sweeds competing in the final :-) This year we have a great artist/songwriter competing for Azerbaycan .He is one of my favourites normally and his name is Arash (born in Iran) and he sings with Aysel(Click on Arash and You´ll se the official video on YouTube). This is one of my favourites and I really hopes it wins. No song is allowed to be more than three minutes.

She stood there absolutly still all the time she could see me. Probably the youngling was near by. Click on the picture to anlarge it so You can see her better.

Now it´s time to use the heat pad again and then out to the sun that has started to shine again! Have a great day now!

Click here and You´ll se the swedish song for the contest.