What happened to spring?
March 29, 2013 68 Comments
Snow-covered “forget me not” blooms
Spring is always a much awaited and celebrated season in Holland. In this very flat country, the Dutch ingenuity of creating flower wonderlands in spring has always attracted millions of visitors from all over the world.
Dutch flower fields – typical spring scenery
Easter egg hunt from 2 years ago — weather was warm then, almost like summer so the kids had so much fun with the egg hunt
Egg hunt from 2 years ago — we’re longing for that weather this time. Forecast for Sunday is not so encouraging at just around 5 degrees Celsius at the warmest
As soon as March starts, I’m already in extreme anticipation of the new season with plans to hit the flower fields and visit to Keukenhof topping the agenda. This year, however, that usual enthusiasm is tempered by the current reality of freezing temperature which if forecasts are to be relied upon, is very discouraging as it is expected to persist till most of the month of April.
What happened to spring? Why the big snub this year? Will it still ever come or are we just going to progress to summer and skip spring all together? I hope not….
We had an infinitesimal glimpse of spring three weeks ago for two days with the mercury tipping at 15 degrees Celsius at the warmest and enough to awaken the croci from their winter slumber. My little girl and I went out as she wanted to pick a few blooms and that was all that spring has been so far from our end.
Forget-me-nots with snow dusting
Snow bells
Snow-covered blooms
Forget-me-not
Forget-me-nots
Snow-dusted forget-me-not
Grape hyacinth
Snow dusting on old flower remnants
Snow-covered leaves
Snow dusted plants
Snow-covered bloom
My little girl and her little bouquet of croci
Picking some crocus from a nearby green spot
Croci
Crocus
Francesca
