Spring in February?

So it's mid-February and temperatures have risen to over 18° for the last 5 days. It should be max 5/6° during the day, it should drop below zero at night. Snow in late March wasn't unusual...
It is really strange. The pale low winter sun with warmth...somehow that just doesn't add up.
Cats don't mind. I don't mind. I am coat-less and fancy free ;)

Who could that be?

My new favorite photo of Bunny

It's been warm enough to sit outside and eat ice-cream and get cat cuddles.

There are actually 3 cats in this photo. But good luck spotting the third one as Frank is perfectly camouflaged. I know where he is and I can barely see him ;)

Taking it easy

Summer is here, at least for a few days. One of my favorite things is to have breakfast in the garden with a book.
I am recovering from 3 days of mean flu so I am taking it extra easy.

Bruno the Fabulous stays by my side.

Mother of all dragon...flies

This weekend while walking in the garden I got caught in a cloud of dragonflies...I ran to the house to get my camera and some were left in the bushes when I came back.
I would have loved to capture the swarm...I seriously have never seen more than one dragonfly at a time before ...and on very rare occasions too.

Most were red but this one was brown...

I didn't manage to take a photo of one in flight as they were all way too fast for me...but I'll keep trying...hopefully I'll see more from now on.

After the excitement of seeing dragonflies, that cute little chubby spider was kind of boring...

and the ladybug was completely lame...

A relaxing cloud post for a stressful Monday...

Pretty April skies...

Can you see the plane? 

Spring sale !

Let's celebrate spring with this 20% discount in my 2 Etsy shops and Dawanda!
Coupon code is  spring20  in all 3 shops.
Offer runs until Sunday April 10th.

Dina Fragola on Etsy
The Captain Cosmos
Dina Fragola on Dawanda 

Wordless Wednesday

Spring in the garden

 Those photos were taken in late April...how the garden has changed already...
And I apologize to all the arachnophobes reading the blog ;)

Cute little spider weaving her web

Snail tree

A tortutous hazelnut tree.

Bumblebee

Another little spider

Neighbours' cherry tree

Blurry pretty bicolor leaf

Kitten

and another sort of kitten

And another little spider

Pepita's got things to do...

Dawanda spring discount

12% off everything in my Dawanda shop on selected days until April2, 2015.

12% de réduction sur toute ma boutique Dawanda (certains jours suivant les catégories séléctionnées par Dawanda)  jusqu'au 2 avril 2015

Spring

The weather has been unusally warm for March again this year...so my mind is on spring wardrobe already...

Skinny flowery pants and cat shirt are by C&A.
Peach kimmers are by Crocs.
Wooden brooch set by me.

Friday favorites

Me too ....  Cute cat card by EinBierBitte on Etsy.

  A cute hermit crab moving house 

 Already longing for spring...and dreaming of new outfits. Hoodie, skinny pants and shoes by Newlook. Necklace by me ;)

But to be a bit more realistic, here's what I'd actually need right now. Duet Busy Day snow boots by Crocs.

Summer arrived early....

 After an incredibly mild winter (2 hours of snow and temperatures barely dropping below zero) weather skipped spring and is giving us summer...in March. all the pictures here were taken on March 16,2014.
I've noticed that for the last 3 or 4 years spring seemed to be earlier and earlier...but this year we had several days with temperatures well above 20° mid March. It never happened before, well not since 1830 when people started recording temperatures.
So obviously plants and flowers are early...except from trees which were still pretty bare until a couple of days ago.

Do you see the bumblebee?

 Naked trees. It felt so strange to be sitting in the sun in the garden with all those bare trees around. It felt a bit like a summer bubble in the middle of winter. It also reminded me of that Space 1999 episode where Moonbase Alpha got an atmosphere on the Moon for a few hours.

 Diego doesn't mind the nice weather.

Downside is that weed is growing and it is already time to mow the lawn...

Philibert on a mission...

to poop in the planter...