Everyone writes about snow, and I will write too.
It was snowing today. In the morning it just rained, later it started to snow. When I came to the office, snow flakes were falling slowly:
And now the sun is shining.
When the sky is clear, I watch sunrise while I drive to the office. And it happened quite often recent two weeks. Sunrise is different each time, and it’s always beautiful.
This morning the sunrise looked like this:
The higher the sun rose, the more there were clouds in the sky. And the sun joyfully winked out of the clouds.
The smell of spring is in the air…
Do you know that… pussy willow is goat willow (lat. Sálix cáprea).
The name … probably derive from the first known illustration of the species… where the plant is shown being browsed by a goat. The species were historically also widely used as a browse for goats…
Its white and furry catkins appear before the leaves:
Later, when pollen releases, catkins become yellow:
These are male catkins.
At the end of March we went for walk into Lomonosov park… to feed ducks, but I’ll tell later about this. We went to the park along Red Pond, Красный пруд.