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Lovely!
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With only two seasons here in Norway, winter and August, we might be waiting a while for flowers. Thanks for images ... I was beginning to forget what they look like and with deer exploring our garden it's likely any flowers will be scared to show their faces. :sad:
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@RonH I'm glad you spelt that last word correctly ;-)

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GeoffW wrote:
26 Feb 2023, 07:17
@RonH I'm glad you spelt that last word correctly ;-)
It was a close call :laugh:
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GeoffW wrote:
25 Feb 2023, 21:20
Meanwhile, it's a pleasant summer down by our local lake. ...
12c and 15c Saturday night
Of course, being in a different hemisphere those figures will need to be negated.
Same forecast for today. At least we are Getting Used To It by now.

All this snow and freezing rain is costing me a lot of time. The roar and scraping noise of a Council truck mounted with a blade, trying to keep the highway clear sounds very much like the Delta Airlines DL83 flight Paris-Atlanta going overhead at 32,000 feet, so filled with Nostalgia I crank up FlightRadar24, only to be disappointed.
Again.

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My strange little friend here in this little Siberian Enclave has it bad just now, after a bit of snow last night, but he seems used to it, as well as I am. Very Pretty, just like me as well. But he is an odd chap, most of these Schneeflocken Snow drop things are white, and there are loads of them around the back. This is an unusual Purple color and in an unusual place, where strange big triffids things more often come later. It’s where I dump all the dead mice I catch. Maybe he is some Frankenstein mutation cross breed.
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Aren't those crocuses instead of snowdrops?
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Could be, I’m not too clued up, but in the last couple of years I have experimented a lot with wildly throwing seeds around everywhere. Some strange looking mutations have sprung up unexpectidly

This is what the little “crocus snow drop” looked like a few days ago when it was untypically warm and sunny for the time of year – I found a Butterfly on my shoe, Image , so I thought he might feel at home on the “crocus snow drop”, if it didn’t eat him. He seemed pretty motionless initially, Image. But a little while later it seemed he was busy doing something to the “crocus snow drop”, either that or it was doing something to him Image

These are the strange wild Triffid things that usually grow there under my Sunflower wheelbarrow in the Summer.
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Yep, those are crocuses, not snowdrops.
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So my purple snowdrops mutations are not only beautiful but very clever, disguising themselves as crocuses. It's the diet I feed them of dead mice and living Butterflies
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"It’s where I dump all the dead mice I catch."

But why are you catching dead mice? :grin: :flee:
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I noticed a few years ago that when they die in the traps I set for them, they sometimes appear to turn into Zombies who wander around for a few days attatched to the trap until they find a nice hidden space to settle down and turn into horribly smelly things. After a few weeks the smell goes away, but they turn into messy partial skeleton things and have lots of babies looking like small Bugs.
So that's when I decided to tie a bit of cord to the traps and fix it secure so the dead mice don't get away.....
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DocAElstein wrote:
26 Feb 2023, 17:32
I noticed a few years ago that when they die in the traps I set for them, ...
Surely a more humane solution could be implemented, where the mice, live even, can be put to better use? :catty:
I mean, cats are good at Springing, even when spring is coming.
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_1) He forgot to fill the bucket with water, ( or something stronger )
_2) Our mice are harder species than those in that video. Our climate makes them hard little things, I geuss. They would fight and jump their way out of a small bucket like that.
Furthermore, I would not like to try and get that many of our mice near me in a bucket like that, or else what was left of me would likely be the stuff fed to the flowers...
( .... Given my proven rather ignorant nature knowledge, along with the Frankenstein mutations that seem to mutate here... maybe some people would refer to my Mice as some Mice/Rat mutation.. I will drop a pick in of the graveyard, when the snow melts.... assuming they are still there and have not walked off.... :flee: )
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DocAElstein wrote:
26 Feb 2023, 18:36
_1) He forgot to fill the bucket with water, ( or something stronger )
Nah! That was his Version 1.0 before YouTube bumped him for malicious content or something.
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The spring equinox is today (in Europe), but it has been raining all day (and it is forecast to rain all day tomorrow) :sad:

Still:

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HansV wrote:
20 Mar 2023, 16:40
...it has been raining all day...
But that didn't stop the light being just right on the catkins :thumbup:

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:clapping: Thanks Hans for beaut image of flowers. I am trying to remember what they look like and you were a real help
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HansV wrote:
20 Mar 2023, 16:40
The spring equinox is today (in Europe), but it has been raining all day (and it is forecast to rain all day tomorrow) :sad:
Oh dear.

I completely missed the spring equinox.

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I hope that you did enjoy the autumn equinox...
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