Sandpiper: In case you are wondering what I wrote about you I have translated;
Sandpiper takes wonderful pictures of nature and shows in her blog, she lives in the north part of USA and writes in english.

LOL!! How did you know? ;-) Thank you! Thank you for your nice words and for sending people to my site, too. That’s so nice of you.

The picture you put up today looks like something we call «pussy willow» here, and it is considered one of the first signs of spring! After the snow storm we had yesterday, your picture is a very welcome sight.

We call them gåseunger, translates into goose children. They are rather quite aren’t they :D
And I envy you your snow… but I have not given up yet, it might look like spring outside, but we can easily get snow in April..

Yes, this winter is very strange. Just recently moved here, and don’t know the climate that well (it differs quite a bit around the city/area because of the fjord), but we are about 5-7 weeks early! Ordinary we would still have a thick coating of snow, but now I have none! And most nights and days are without frost! We can still get more wintry weather though, it really isn’t safe to plant out nonehardy plants until may.