The sky looked the same yeaterday like it does today.

I slept with my bedroom window open for the first time this night. My cottage is very well isolated and yesterday evening it was so warm in my bedroom that it was impossible to sleep. It was so quiet outdoors that I almost could hear it, if You know what I mean. But after a while I could hear the fan from my neighbours heating system (it sort of takes cold air from the outside and under high pressure it makes the air warm and blows it into his home), and a couple of times I could hear my cats playing. But outherwise nothing.

The trees by the creek are a little behind in getting leafs compared to those nearer home.

The waterlevel is very low now and the little rain that has come woun´t help at all.

When I almost were asleep suddenly I could hear a kind of sad whisteling. It came quite regular but I had no idea what kind of bird it was. After a while there came an answer, a somewhat more highe pitched whisteling. The new whisteling sound came more often and I wondered if it was two birds telling where their territorys were or perhaps a couple telling each other where they were. After a while it sounded as if it was comming from inside my bedroom and that was a bit confusing. I then realised that the lower whisteling sound came from my nose and the higher one came from my oldest dog :-) :-) Every time we breathed this whisteling sound appered and since she breathed slightly quicker than I, her sound came more often :-) :-)

Here and there the Yellow marsh marigold has started to spread along the creek.

The Yellow marsh marigold is quite beautiful and nowdays they are quite common in gardens with ponds or weat beds. There exists varieties that are white, has varigiated leafs and some that has filled flowers.

I slept like a log and didn´t wake up until my neighbour drove to work. There were a slight drizzle outside and it felt so nice lying there under the cover listening to the rain. It wasn´t that nice to get up from bed however. It was as cold inside as it was on the outside so the first thing I did was to lit a fire in my kitchen stove. It still drizzles outside so I refuse to take a walk until the heat from the stove has spread therough my little cottage. My cats and dogs are scattered in my home sleeping on their favourite places. Hector on my bed, Erna in her basket just beside (still whisteling with her nose :-) ), Orvar on the bottom of the stairs to the kitchen, Teodor in the basket where I have the handkershiefs I dry my dogs with during rainy weather (they don´t smell nice:-) ) and Bertil on the couch in the livingroom.

We have lots of different Violets in my neighbourhood. This one grows near water and woun´t make it in an ordinary garden.


This is a little favourite of mine in my garden. I think it is a Soldanella montana but it can be a Soldanella alpina. The flowers are smaller than a little finger nail.

These haven´t quite opened yet but when they do they will become slightly lighter in colour.

Now it´s time to make some coffee and put some more firelogs in the stove.
Have a great day now!

Toedor and Bertil fights over the right to this hole in my garden :-)