Finally spring :-)

It's half past nine in the evening and we still have light, phantastic! As a comparison, there are 14:14h of daylight in Göttingen at the moment, whereas 15:06h here.

In contrast to the last pictures now the spring has also arrived here. Birds were already singing in February and March, when the days were also getting longer. But with -13°C that could hardly be spring. But since April the snow has melted away. Now only very few remains are left over and lakes and the sea are still covered by thin ice. During the day it is already so warm that we can be outside without a jacket. Yesterday I spotted the first crocus!
But when I went to Jyväskylä (300km north of Helsinki) this weekend, it was snowing again :-( I learned that this phenomenon is called takatalvi - backwinter...

The winter was really beautiful, but now I am happy about the spring!