Bird Cherry

 Last year, we literally missed spring; we were stuck indoors except for essential shopping trips. We are lucky enough to have a little garden which we could enjoy and be outside without leaving the house, but even so it's not the way to enjoy the spring.

This year, it's still pandemic. We're not locked down and we are allowed anywhere in the autonomous community of Aragón-we've been to Zaragoza a couple of times, and to Huesca to get our first vaccinations.

Now it's April. I had daffodils in my garden,

I know there aren't so many but they were the first ones; later there were some lovely narcissi in between them.

This is a photo I took to identify the white flowers in the foreground, which are probably radishes, but you can see some of the lovely yellow narcissi as well.

There have been tulips-not so many, and lots of grape hyacinths, which do very well here.

At the right time the plum trees were lovely, although ours had such a radical professional pruning it wasn't lush!

What really is lush, gorgeous, is the bird cherry down the road. 

It's so pretty people turn to look as they go past!

Prunus padus L

Here is a little corner in Jaca where I found what I think is apple blossom, cherries already setting and bay.

Spring!

What a joke! Officially it's spring, but the weather is extreme. In Jaca:

In Senegüé, near Saniñánigo:

(this one, taken by my friend Elena, is perfect!)

Meanwhile, in Zaragoza, the wind is blowing. Opposite our flat an aerial got blown over by a gust of wind and the fire brigade had to come and take it down. They were there for at least 45 minutes.

Excitement for Tuesday dinnertime!

May holiday

May Day this year fell on Sunday, so the holiday was passed on to Monday to make a nice long weekend. Unfortunately the weather wasn't very nice most of the time and there was a cold wind which made it unpleasant to be out, so we didn't have a good outing until Monday when the wind had died down. In Somport there was bright sunshine and nice crunchy snow in the shady areas.

Although most of the ground is clear of snow everything still has a rather squashed look and the vegetation hasn't woken up for its short growing season yet in Somport. Last weekend in San Juan de la Peña was different; it's a bit lower down and spring was busting out all over.

Beech shoots

Jonquils

Pale Alpine narcissus

Spring

I looked out of my bedroom window this morning and saw a robin. Then I saw another one! We haven't seen any for ages!
The fruit trees are all in flower. My daffodils are beginning to open.