First day of spring!

Hello! I'm back! Today was the first day of spring and me and my dear father went to my ancestral province of Friesland to buy some trees to plant and have a general l@@k around. To the left is an adorable little village we stopped in with a canal and nice little bridges and also pictured in the lower left corner is part of our Volvo V40 station wagon.

Hooboy :) Anyway as I said today was the first day of spring and it was a whopping 12 degrees centigrade and sunny as hell. Where was I? Oh yeah I went to Friesland with my dad and on our way we stopped at these neolithic burial things made of glacial boulders that you can see on the right (i cropped out my dad because it's probably not cool to put your dad on the web).
To the left is the main square in the capital of Friesland, Leeuwarden, where I took this picture of its really crooked church tower. It was originally planned to be much higher than this but during construction they gave up because of how wonky looking it was.

Back home, some ducks have been walking around our garden as of late, I managed to take a picture of them as they were foraging in the early morning. Aren't they cute??

This shot I took just now at dusk. Pictured is one of my favorite trees, a lonely birch whose leaves rustle loudly whenever there's a small breeze, which makes for a nice effect in quiet evenings.

I hope you have enjoyed my little report. Blog ya later.

RATS!!

Oh no everybody, my videocard has stopped functioning and everything's just gone to hell. Expect updates to be slow. Not to worry, SRPAMOS is NOT shut down. DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT ANY1 SAYS!! THEY ARE SPREADING RUMORS ABOUT MY BLOG!!!

Flowers of early march

Here's two pictures of flowers that I took today. Spring is late and the crocuses haven't fully opened yet. Note how sports car crisp the stripes on its leaves are. I'm not sure what the other flowers are exactly, only one patch of them grows in my whole garden but they look very nice in what is otherwise still a sleeping winter landscape.

Joy of Poultry

Growing up on a farm has a certain effect on a human being. Simply observing some clumsy beetle crawling along its little world of dewy grass and the realization that for thousands of kilometers its little friends are doing the same, going to and fro to whatever business they have in their miniature jungle renders one more or less immune to the worst of human pettiness. Whenever I'm in the city I remind myself that back home, a buttercup is pushing its unopened bud into the light above ground, a cow is lying in the sun or one of my chickens has just found some tasty little earthworm and is pecking at it with its little beak, knowing of nothing else in the world.

My chickens currently number only ten. Last summer there were twenty-five of them, but since I've had to give a few of them away to other people (after assuring they'd be well kept and not eaten or bred, I hate overzealous breeders) and because of a few hawk-related incidents, only ten of the little creatures currently wander my yard. They're mostly dutch bantams with some other stuff mixed in here and there, which means they're small and not too messy. Because I am a simple, somewhat ridiculous man who enjoys simple things I like to photograph them and I hope you will enjoy these chicken pictures as much as I do.

Here's Bernard, who, through wit and perception, has found a patch of pretty little snowdrops (all by himself). He's obviously very proud of his latest achievement. I've had multiple roosters called Bernard because it's just a good name for a rooster but this particular incarnation of Bernard (Bernard VI) is probably the goofiest. Although he's fairly big and stocky he's gentle, timid and somewhat cowardly, much like his owner. When he's not too busy mistrusting me and slightly opening his beak in vague panic at my approach he and I get along very well.

Today is the first of march which is a month I'd feel apprehensive of since in the Netherlands it usually comes with a lot of rain and wind, but the bloom of the snowdrops and the emergence of the first patches of colorful crocus flowers more than makes up for this. My garden is particularly snowdrop-heavy as you can see here:

I hope you will all have a nice day with lots of sun. Take care.

My first blog

Everybody probably does this, I'm just posting something to see how it looks and so forth. I'm cute.