Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Springtime in Berne

Hello again!

The world is full of bad news, apart from the fact that one of my great film heroes is 80 today. Congratulations, Sidney Poitier! Watching him in In the Heat of the Night changed my life, literally.

A few days ago I mentioned the gorgeous view from my office window. I've taken I don't know how many photos already. It's a bit like watching the sea -- the same but different all the time. Well, here are my latest photos of an evening last week. If you click on the photos you should be able to see a bigger version:

(The horizontal white streak in the foreground is an Intercity train leaving Berne.)

This afternoon, towards the end of yet another gloriously sunny and unseasonally warm day, I took a photo of the magnolia tree outside our office building (yes, on the other side, which gets the afternoon sun). Here it is:

The buds are burgeoning. A few more days like this and it'll be in bloom! In the little patch of garden next door, the snowdrops are almost over:

Thanks for visiting. See you again, soon! By then I'm hoping to have a few photos of crocuses, which are also almost over. And in another patch of grass I saw daffodil leaves spiking tall, and fat buds atop equally fat stalks. When is Easter this year? 6 and a half more weeks away!

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