WIND NW TO N 25 TO 35 KT, SEAS 8 TO 11 FT IN NW SWELL

Eastbound, full rig, close-hauled, arse flung out leewards, with the luff scuppers three feet under water.

Solo sailor, wet, really wet

Procul Ex Oculis, Procul Ex Mente?

Myosotis sylvatica

Nope.

Dandelions

Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia

They keep horses on these fields but as far as I know, dandelions have been connected to stringhalt in Australia? Uh, no, the plant that is toxic for horses is a different species Hypochaeris radicata also known as “false dandelion”which the flower depicted above is not.
Yes. I “jumped” over the fence and checked 😉

Leather Bergenia

Bergenia crassifolia

More after the fold

Cloudscape

Beware! Very large picture!

Spring seems to come, finally. Still a bit stuttering, though, average temperatures go up and down 10 degrees every two days.
On of the common situations in which a heart attack is not unexpected is while plowing snow. Now that I have survived that, ploughing might get me a second change.
At least I got the nearly thigh-high lawn mowed by now, the dead reed around the pond is mostly cut off, the rhododendrons got a handful of quite expensive compound fertiliser each, and this and that and those, too, but a lot is left to-do, still; the garden-year just started.

Oh, Sweet Violet!

Viola odorata

And another coloured greeting

Scilla siberica, I think

If you have a different opinion about the identification of this flower: don’t be shy and tell me.

Peek-A-Boo! [correction]

Hyacinthus orientalisMuscari botryoides

[Update] Sorry, completely wrong plant (okay, not completely wrong: still subfamily Scilloideae) but also a neophyte.

Squeezing itself through a lot of concrete.

Spring? Really?

‘t was a short glimpse, only

Shortly after that, rain restarted.

Springtime II

Crocus sp.

A bit out of focus (it is still the cheap digi-snapper) but more after the fold.