Nature Notes

[poliphilo]

In Moscow it's 30 degrees below and they're talking about "Russia's new ice age," but this hasn't stopped people celebrating the feast of the Epiphany by cutting holes in the river ice and taking a dip to wash away their sins.

Here we've had a run of warm, misty days. I was dragging the wheelie bin in off the street and I saw that the daffodils and crocus were beginning to push their noses out in our neighbour's front yard.

Comments

[dadi.livejournal.com]

I am really wondering about the weather these days. In Italy it has been FREEZING for weeks now, we are steadily below 0, even around -10 some days. And in the north, temperatures are moderate. In Brussels, I was walking around without the coat. Strange.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Who knows if these things are blips or signs of real deep-seated change.

Today a bottle-nosed whale has swum up the Thames as far as the Houses of Parliament, something that has never happened before. Our ancestors would have spoken of such things as omens.