Oh, neat!

oh yes. :) and there are tiny blue flowers all over the grass. I wonder if we planted them or they came by themself...

I have those as well! I think they're part of the lawn. :D

not regularly, at least not in nifty-pifty germany. :) but they started to sell flower-meadows, too, for those who like to provide something colourful and more natural than a thick carpet of green. :)

Mighta been mixed into the lawn seed mix?

possible. you can buy such mixes here. plain grass, or with local flowers for the insects.

and the looks, too. :)

*Nods* seen similar out here.

tulips are a definite mark of spring...

V.

and some others I have no idea how to name them. :)
also, bees and butterflies. and all the other ones. ^^

Looks like crocuses (my personal favourite spring flower), daffodils, some lavender and others!

we used to crocus a lot, I think most are already gone again. maybe too dry? weather here is... interesting as of late. daffodil, yeah, sounds right. not sure about lavender, but possible. :)

Crocuses tend not to stick around long, as a rule. :)

maybe we shouldn't have mowed them, then we'd have more...

Nah, they're bulb based, they'll be back next year. :)

of course, but they might have ragequitted for this year. :P

Nah, crocuses are one-and-done for the year. :D

Spring has sprung
The grass has riz
I wonder where
The boidies is?

"Frühling ist es nun geworden
es weht aus Süden statt aus Norden.
Die Knospen an den Bäumen springen
und Vogel, Hund und Kater singen.
Fidirallala, fidirallala!"

~Heinz Erhardt

"Und wieder ist es Herbst hienieden
es weht aus Norden statt aus Süden.
Die Knospen an den Bäumen ruhen
und auch die Kater haben nichts zu tuhen.
Rallafididi, Rallafididi."

again, Heinz Erhardt

So pretty :D

aw yes. :) finally the grimy times are over... for a while. :)

So nice! Here it takes a week or two more to get so flowery. But it's not like I can go anywhere right now, so I can wait.

But then, once I've seen how it is in Norrland in Sweden. No leaves of any kind until mid-to-late May!

spring seems to crawl northwards.

aw, I wouldn't want to live there, myself. :0

I had an occasion to actually go somewhere yesterday, and it seems like it's getting similarly green around here too.

And about Norrland, sure, the spring arrives late, but then, there's no night over June and July! It's absolutely crazy if you've never seen anything like that before. I remember my first summer evening there. I was bit tired and just had the TV on and was watching pretty mindlessly (not understanding much Swedish at that time either). And then, I'm looking at the window, and think it must be still early, it's pretty bright, looks like it's 9 o'clock in the evening. After some time I'm looking again, and then later again... It's still 9... wait, what?! Can't be, the film was long and now it's over. I'm looking at the clock and it's 2 already!! O_o

I've heard of that effect on people. :)

Complete with a garden gnome...

he's been waiting as well. ;)

I only wished they'd never started to dig a giant hole to put the train station underground. it costs a mind-numbing heap of money, and the result is already too small to work, and they have almost ten years ahead of them still.
and only that some people who will never have to stand up for this can clap their own shoulders.
ah, anyway. it still is a nice area, with a lot of vicinity and interesting places not far away. :)

we will have a lot of fun in the coming decades...

I actually traveled around Germany a good bit, and noticed this tendency to put things underground. All these tunnels on the highways, for example.

right? no idea. tunnels cost extra money, and are extra intensive on maintenance, and rescuers have a real horror vision when something down there happens. those tunnels they are building here are a bit on the tight side because it's cheaper, and all the firefighter forces here say they pray to the powers above that there won't be any accident in the tunnels, because you can't evacuate a train due to the narrow tunnels...
and then there is anhydrite everywhere. one could say it's a natural gypsum stuff, but it quells a lot when it comes to contact with water. we have had lots of "fun" with it in the recent past, be it roads that bulge into eternity, tunnels that are threatened to collapse, or a whole small city being lifted from it until houses that have been there over 300 years are about to dismantle.
but we "need" an underground train station. rrright.

Something-something-Ze_Geormen_approachish_to_constructionen...

XD so true...

And how did it go? Germany seems to have Street View disabled for the most part.

that's probably because data security restrictions. we germans are a bit afraid of Big Brother Watching Us, yet we spread all our private lifes on the internet.

don't ask.

Lovely pics.

thank you. ^^

Oh, that lare, stuck in "work in progress" mode screams "Beware of Perfectionist!"

Nothing is done, untill everything to the last detail would be in complete harmony with one's soul. Then, thru some "that'll do"s and "i wish this burned next day!", the harmony is reached. It's a hard path to go, but it's worth living thru.

and sometimes one just goes by instinct... :)

in fact we're just looking for a good place where it loogs good without being in the way of things. the garden is somethign of a narrow strip at an odd angle to the house. no idea what the old ones thought when they established the area way back when... XD