Picspam & stuff

[kribu]

It's been an incredibly sleepy Sunday. Raining hard almost all day, grey and bleak.

Watching Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii did brighten the day though. Enjoyed it a lot, and spotted a few cute nods to the old series again. Yay!

Went for a walk yesterday, so there's picspam. After a lot of deliberation, decided to do the flowers picspam post today and the rest in a separate post at some point.

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Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem, I think.



Random... red stuff.



Hepatica.



Scilla.



Crocuses.



Another crocus.



Snowflake.



The inside of a snowflake.



More snowflakes.



Weird red thingy.



Another crocus.



Snowdrops.



Hepatica.



Some more hepatica.


Have spent most of the day, on and off, watching a direct webcam feed of Donna the black stork nesting. Mostly she's been just sitting there, but I got to see her get up and rearrange the eggs (three of them, I think) a few times and on one occasion, poop over the edge of the nest. Exciting!

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[ayerf.livejournal.com]

Lovely weather. Not much better here.

Purtty flowers! I like the first pic of the hepatica best. Nice and purple.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

We really just managed to get the walk done yesterday before it turned all horrid - was slightly drizzling already for the last half an hour of the walk, although we started out with a semi-blue sky.

Thanks. It's a difficult colour to get right, somehow.

[septentrion1970.livejournal.com]

Oh the pretties!

Dozing Sunday here too, though here it's sunny.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

It actually almost felt like real spring here yesterday. :-D

Sunny is nice. I rather hope this greyness won't last too long.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Lovely - thanks!
I think the weird red thingy might be rhubarb.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Really? Would be the weirdest rhubarb I've ever seen, but I really have no idea, so might well be!

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

First time I saw rhubarb sprouting in the spring, it was just like that - a weird red bulge that unwrapped itself and grew. Go back and look in a week or so and take another photo. I'd be interested to know whether I'm right.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

I googled a bit and it certainly looks like you might be absolutely right! I've never seen rhubarb in such an early stage.

Can't promise to go back as it's a bit off from my usual routes, but I am inclined to think it's just what it might be. Was sort of an abandoned old garden area of an abandoned house, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[ubiquirk.livejournal.com]

How beautiful. Snowflakes are wonderful - I'm not sure I've ever seen those before.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

They're really pretty. We have quite a few but they generally bloom for a rather short time after the snow is gone, and generally are not very abundant.

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Lovely pics!

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[cck-brit.livejournal.com]

Still no signs of spring flowers here. Those pics were lovely!

[kribu.livejournal.com]

I do hope you get yours soon, too! And thank you.

[lariopefic.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pictures! We get snowflakes here in our yard, but I never knew what they were called.

Would you mind if I used picture #11 (crocus) to make an icon?

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad to have been of educating assistance, too. ;-)

I don't mind at all, go ahead!

[pythia-delphi.livejournal.com]

Ooh pretty, even the weird red thingy :-)

Weather here was awful too. Good to know it's not just we Brits who suffer the vagaries of spring.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Thanks to Dicky, I'm now fairly sure it's rhubarb. Would never have guessed!

Today is sunny here but very, very, very windy. And at 3°C, not nearly as warm as it looked when I was eyeing the weather out of the window...

[pythia-delphi.livejournal.com]

Sunny here too thankfully, but supposed to rain hideously later.

Btw, am giving you fair warning that am trawling through all my flist's recent entries, so don't be suprised if I comment on stuff that's over a week old. I've been a bad LJ friend so far, and am trying to make amends now as I am off sick and thus have a bit of spare time.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

I don't mind comments, whether on old or new entries! :-D

It's terribly difficult sometimes to stay current with the f-list.