Archive for April, 2008
Crocus buds
The flower photography season is now open – even if these are just buds! But I just couldn’t wait any longer, the snow is dirty and weather is boring but the spring crocus buds are absolutely beautiful. Every day when I come home from work, I pause by the flowers and just look at them, marvelling at how they grow even when it’s a cold day.
Most of the crocuses are violet coloured, or white-violet – only two yellows so far.
This is just about the first time I’m using the Sigma 150mm f2.8 for its intended purpose – macros. Can’t complain! I also found it to be an absolute joy to be working with a shallow DOF again.
I planted the bulbs in organised rows, which might not have been the best of ideas. But now that the flowers are starting to grow, I can see that they are spreading out, and the lines can effectively be used for creating OOF foreground.
I also saw some wild flowers today – coltsfoot! Last year I found the first hepatica blooming on this date, but now I can’t find a trace of them yet. I’ll settle for the crocuses then and keep my fingers crossed for the snowdrops. I can see some leaves already.
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I drove to Gävle yesterday to buy motorbike clothes. So now I’m all set up – the only thing I need is a dry road! It will take a while though, because the weather seems to be cooling now and SMHI is forecasting snowfall.
1 commentWeather – March 2008
It was a fairly good March, actually – maybe not as sunny as you’d expect, but just a decent winter month. Even got a cold spell in the second half, but now in the last few days it seems like spring is coming with a vengeance and the snow is visibly disappearing. The first sign of spring was that my crocuses started to sprout up (the 9th), and the first swans were spotted at DÃ¥asen on the 26th.
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Temperature (High): 5°C
Temperature (Low): -11°C
Temperature (Average): -2°C
Barometer (High): 1009 mbar
Barometer (Low): 974 mbar
Barometer (Avg): 994 mbar
Total of sunny days: 2
Snow cover (High): 63.5 cm
Snow cover (Low): 44 cm
Snow cover (Avg): 55 cm
New snow: 24.5 cm
Days with snowfall: 20
Rain: 10 mm
Days with rain: 4
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