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On Tuesday we went to our cabin in the woods (an hour NWN from Tavelsjö). Very snowy there. Also saw some random dogs on the road lol. No owners nearby.
Dinosaur tracks all over the frozen lake.
Doggo for scale
This thursday, the first day for over a week with temps above like 2-3'C I went to Umeå to sign my new work's contract and stuff. The cold spell seems to have literally reset spring completely. Snow drops have literally started growing again. They must've thought it had become winter...
Croci that have just started flowering. Honestly, except for the general lack of snow, Umeå doesn't look any different from a month ago.
This specific goat willow was bright green because of green catkins this time last year. Now the catkins are just black.(River then completely melted as well since long before. Now it's mostly melted, less so in this specific picture though). Sadly I don't have comparison pics left as I deleted last year's spring pictures on my old phone.
The buds of larches had definitely started showing tiny green needles by this time last year...
Atleast the snow is gone. (****ing ****, I just realized I ****ed up the symmetry).
Back in Tavelsjö this pretty cool halo showed up. This was the same day, still a lot of snow.
And look at these two aspen trees! They look like one tree was chopped in half and the two splits were moved away from eachother! Also notice the swans. They've become very common the last week or so.
These willowy thingies are starting to glow a very fiery orange
This clover impostor has started flowering there. A wild flower finally.
The buds on this lilac are getting huge.
Rhubarbs just now popping up. In Umeå they were already pretty huge a few weeks ago.
This was three days ago. Pretty neat cloud formation. Fields already starting to melt.
The last three days have seen almost-average temperatures and so the melting has been alright. This is what that same field looks like now.
Yesterday evening vs this afternoon:
We saw some roe deer from the house too.
All in all, Tavelsjö looks pretty much the same as Umeå did in the end of March with about the same flower progression and about 50% of areas having snow.
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