Spring!

The transition to Spring here has been neither gradual nor subtle. On April 9th I woke to snow. Six days later, the parks were packed with Hanoverians in T-shirts tending barbecues and drinking Herrenhäuser. On April 14th the medians of the park were suddenly carpeted with little blue flowers. Today the daffodils bloomed. Yesterday some trees with white flowers exploded into bloom. Today it it's the pink-flowered trees. The green buds on the other trees seem to double in size day by day. Now we have sun and daylight past 9pm. It's a welcome relief from the monotonous gloom that lingered so long.