Maybe they will be open later on the day, as the sun brightens and warms them even more.
I think they are early this year
I found in my archives that in 2016 they were almost open on april 26th!
and back in 2014 they also were nearly open on April 04.
It looks to me that the snail prefers more the purples and the blues. The yellow is maybe less his favourite. So nice to know that!
I love the word how it rhymes: 'Snail-trail'. When you look closer, the trail is even full of shiny shimmering colors, What Creator has fancied that, when He made the snails!
(click the images for a better and sharper view!)
He took some things out...I guess its poo...from other birds who have been sleeping in the nestbox. He really was inspecting everything very carefully. All day he flew to and fro, in and out.
I had noticed a robin sitting on the fence. He was a kind of searching and looking... probably for food. Maybe he was also having inspection for a nesting place.
Anyway, I thought it might be lovely for me to have a good sight on it when he decides to pick this box for a new family of robins! I have a great view on it from one of my windows.
In the Netherlands you can have them made by the post-office and you can use them (instead of the ones they have) on your snail-mail.
I love stamps and I still don't like that we lost our snail-mail-stamps. Some stamps are so beautiful like small real art pieces.
Spring has awakened them for a new season!
It feels a bit weird this day for me. I actually did not know what to do with this extra day. Normally I do kind of know ...always lots of things on the list I want, like or need doing.
It wasn't a day like that. Time was messing up with me in my mind at least.
Didn't do for a long time. I love sleeping cats...
Thinking about having a cat again, they are such good company and always so cute.
They are kind of awakening this week, because of the warmth inside. Outside it's still too cold for them to dare to break out yet.
They can have different colors, like blue, white or pink.
These are the blue ones...this kind of blue I like so much.
It has a purple-ish hue to it, like ultramarine-blue which is to me a color I love very very much.
I did not plant them there...This crocus specie makes seeds after blossoming. The seeds must have sown themselves between the stones. And now they come out on the weirdest places.
It every year reminds me of the power of nature,
Birds are already having inspection in the nest boxes.
Bulbs breaking out everywhere now. I love spring so much!
It was a mesmerising sight..lots of diamonds glistening in the early light on the snowdrops.
