söndag 28 mars 2010

Every spring..

..it is with great joy I - and I guess, most people dying for Spring -discover the very first, timid little blue Heapticas under the murky leaves of last year.
I have been roaming the surrounding woodlands for some days now on the lookout for the blue Spring signs as the snow gradually is giving way. And, alas! Yesterday I found the very first! Blåsippor they are called in Swedish.
The Hepatica is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants belonging to the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. A native of central and northern Europe, Asia and northeastern North America.Some botanists include Hepatica within a wider interpretation of Anemone.