lovely day

[jinian]

A chaos of snow, rain, bright sun, graupel, mix and repeat. Doubtless I caused this by wearing a fluttery summer dress (with two shirts and knee boots, quite comfy really). The daphne is blooming at school, and as I came home the weather was in hushy beautiful snow mode.

Sunday I played outside.



There are some shining purple crocuses too, but I had trouble photographing them.



Look how dirty the rain has made the peony shoots! And I love the carved-jade perfection of the bleeding-heart leaves coming out; they're doing so well in the cleared bed by the vegetable garden now.



The snowdrop got a bit dirty as well. Too bad I only have one this year; I gave the rest to Mom, who loves them like crazy.



Not scented violets, but so pretty.

Comments

[oyceter]

Oh, so pretty! I especially love the shot of the bleeding-heart leaves (I think? The green things that look like they are going to unfurl above the photo of the red pointy things.)

... ahaha. My plant knowledge, I have none!

[jinian]

Yep, that's them!

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Here I was referring to that kind of soft hail / hard round snow as 'snow that doesn't like labels' b/c I had forgotten it was called graupel. Also I had to look up the pronunciation (it's like the 'GROW' from 'growl' and then kind of 'pull') and the etymology (diminutive from German, probably from a Russian word for hulled grain).

Nice flowers too :)

[pameladean]

Oh, these are lovely.

We have 13 inches of snow on the ground, so I won't be seeing such sights as those for some time yet.

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