Sprouts of spring

The weather becomes weirder with every year. This year we basically had no winter (well, there were a few cold days in January but without the snow - in the result, black forst has destroyed winter crops in Latvia). The meteorological spring started even before the astronomical spring - at the beginning of February. However, if some became happy about very early spring (including me) with green leafs already in March, he got disappointed. The spring has been very slow, temperatures still just a 5-10 degrees above zero. Thus only now the first greenery is appearing around (grass, bushes, not trees yet). Anyway, still this spring will have one of the fastest greenery in the last decade. Here you see first heralds of spring from Strazdumuižas park, Saturday. If we take a look back how Riga looked like a year ago in this time...
 



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