Getting the blues..

..and spring came to Gotland and my garden on Friday! This is a rather rare color of the anemone hepatica nobilis found in the back of the garden this sunny afternoon. Pretty isn´t she?

And the more common color of this lovely small flower put in a tiny glass vase I bought in the fleemarket yesterday for eqv. to 2 dollars - for this very purpose! In many parts of Sweden the anemone hepatica nobilis is protected by law - but not in Gotland where they grow like weed!

Another sign of spring:
The laundry line with clothes swaying in the south/westerly winds so common on this island.
The carpenter´s shed as backdrop..

The woods are full of them and all the meadows are getting bluer by the minute!

Not the anemone hepatica but a sweet yellow flower - one of the earliest to defy the Swedish winter! In Swedish she is actually called: "Winter mock!" In English she would be called : "Winter Aconite or Wolf's Bane" which belongs to the family Ranunculaceae. Eranthis hyemalis is its latin name and she is a flower found only in Europe..