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 ;)

Wet season...monsoon maybe?

Hygrocybe conica, aka blackening waxcap

 It's been raining A LOT lately...and I mean A LOT...the garden turned into a paddyfield...and we're getting strange mushrooms I had never seen before...

 Even the cats were intrigued.

Pepita needed to investigate.

It stinks.

I am not even getting near it.

A relaxing cloud post for a stressful Monday...

Pretty April skies...

Can you see the plane? 

Cyber meeeeeeehday

Monday, windy, rainy, unfocused.
Sometimes trying to make my business work feels like I am trying to fly by flapping my arms.
I have zero marketing skills. Never had. My favorite teacher at graphic school once told me "you don't know how to sell yourself". In my world it's not bad thing. In the real world...arrrgh...

General feeling today...

Wordless Wednesday

A weekend in London

 I am like the worst blogger ever...or maybe I just have too much on my mind to write anything even remotely interesting...
In January I took a little trip to London. London is one of my favorite places on this planet. I used to go there all the time (in another lifetime, it seems now)...and quite honestly I can't remember the last time I went there...I am not even sure it was in this century O.o
But, well, London was waiting for me...with bright sunshine (!) and warm weather (!) in January.
That trip made me so happy. I hardly took any photos because I was so immersed in the whole experience.

 Some of my old "haunts" had gone, some were still there ... hello, vegetarian restaurant in Covent Garden...and oddly enough, the only Crocs store in London is almost right in front of it.

 I had tea at  Jamie Oliver's Diner, because I cannot NOT go to a dinosaur themed restaurant. Cheesecake was perfect and the place was not a disappointment. They even have some embroidery dino scenes on the walls (but my photos are too blurry).
I cannot think of any other towns where I enjoy walking aimlessly even half as much. Hopping on and off a bus , taking the tube...the tube, I even missed the tube...seeing all those familiar station names passing by...the peculiar smell of the London tube... Many people must have thought I was high, sitting there with a large dreamy smile on my face...

And getting room 42 at the hotel...cherry on the cake...

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...