Waiting...

... and waiting. And waiting. For S-P-R-I-N-G to come. This year the first warm days came so early all over the Europe - at least this is what we've heard from families, friends and other people living southern from Finland. But here winter still rules. Looking through the windows from our apartment I can see only snow. In a front of the building there is a little hill - all made from snow (otherwise the surface is flat) and the playground covered with a thick snowy blanket. Wanda loves to play there, climbing that hill and sliding down. Cool! But maybe not necessarily by the end of March. At least for me. And in the middle of this white snowy yard there is still a X-mass tree standing proud just two weeks before Easter. I wonder if someone will remove it before we start coloring eggs... This weekend we've got another little wintery gift - a new snow came overnight and on Sunday morning some kids made a snowman. Thank you. Today I've met some girls who live in Helsinki for some years now. I asked them if this year's winter is typical. I didn't get a promising answer. They said it's rather mild. One of the girls remembered a season when she shoveled snow from her backyard still in April...