Easter Adventures.

It's the EASTER HOLIDAYS!!  It's exciting to have a very much needed break from the daily grind.  My family is visiting me from the south of Germany and yesterday we went to the Pfaueninsel on Wannsee.  The weather was perfect.  And we went on a short ferry ride to get to the island.  The island is a nature reserve with an abundance of beautiful flowers, a rose garden and free roaming peacocks, pheasants and other birdy things. 

Our ticket to get across the tiny bit of water over to the island.

A posing peacock.  There were people feeding him.  We didn't have anything to feed him with so my mum threw a stone in his direction to trick him.  At first he fell for it and turned around and started walking towards us with his epic plumage trailing behind him, he then looked at my mum's grinning face and cawed (more like meowed) at her in disgust.

 The great view of sail boats on Wannsee on our way to Pfaueninsel's aviary.

Today was again an absolutely lovely day.  We spent it in Potsdam.  The weather was as excellent if not even better than yesterday's weather!  We walked around the Park Sancoussi.  Things were a'bloomin and there were A LOT of tourists.  But we thoroughly enjoyed it.  We sat on a bench in the Sicilian Garden and ate our grapes and strawberries in the hawt hawt sunshine.  We then went on a small Easter egg hunt.  I happened to have 3 small chocolates in the bottom of my bag, which I hid around the Sicilian Garden.

 The flowers that are planted in front of Schloss Sancoussi.

A ginko tree starting to put out its teeny tiny leaves.  At first we didn't realise that these were ginko trees.  Super super super cute!

 So that was my Easter weekend in a nutshell.  Hope you've had a wonderful time with family, friends, or even in alone.  All that counts is that it was enjoyed.  Thanks for reading and see you next week.

..love..

Remebering Sunday on a dreary Monday.

Yesterday was a beautiful new Sunday!  The Sahara dust has settled and the sun made an appearance.  It was a lovely walking day.  All the trees are blooming and the little leaf buds are starting to shimmer a wonderful fresh spring green.  I wish Sunday could happen again.  I'm not feeling this grey and dreary Monday...but in remembrance of how wonderful yesterday was, here a picture of blooming trees.

More excitement from Sunday is that I've spotted my first little bean pods on my bush bean plant!!!  Eeeeek!!!  Already!  Madness!  They're tiny and very cute and hopefully will become big and strong.  I realise that in this photo it is like looking at one of those pictures of Where's Wally? but once you spot it you can't look away (well, at least I couldn't)!

 I photographed my peppermint plant.  It is just exploding with growth.

And also, my new favourite one of my photos, is this coriander.  I just thought I was taking a quick photo of it to put up on here but when I look at it, it is beautiful, and I have no idea why.  Maybe because I have been using lots of coriander in cooking recently?  It is one of the best tastes in the world.  It is definitely the best fresh off the plant.  And coriander is sooooooo easy to grow that everyone should have a plant.  Seriously you'll never look back to the days when you had no fresh coriander.  I should start a coriander appreciation society!

And with that I say goodbye and wish you all a great start into the new week.  See you at the end of it.  Hopefully I will have successfully completed my mission of finding miners lettuce (winter portulak/postelein in German), echinacea, and jalapeno pepper seeds for planting.

Thanks for reading.
..love..