Spring's in the air...

The trees are still leafless, but spring is in the air...

Ech... zima.

A neighbour told me that when the crows are here, it's a sure sign of heavy snowfalls... we'll wait and see. I liked winter better when I was a child. Now, somehow, I can't apprciate it.

Autumn leaves

One more from the seaside

A sunset at the Baltic sea. Next week I'm back to blogging from Katowice. Take care, everyone!

Swallow chicks waiting to be fed

The swallow mother was busy cruising to and fro to feed the hungry birdies.

Just a view from the window...

I like the lighting in this photo.

Before the storm...

On Friday there was a terrible storm here.

Lilliputain tree

On the other hand: it looks like a gigantic bonsai ;)

Hippo

I've visited the Zoo today. Actually, the zoo park is in CHORZÓW, a town neighbouring Katowice. But, as I've written many times before, Silesia is a big urban agglomeration of many towns. Today: greetings from the hippo :)

Crooked tree

I took a photo of this crooked tree some weeks ago.
I wonder what it looks like with leaves - I'll take another photo when I'm there.

Yesterday's sunset

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Lilacs

Lilacs blossom (in my mother-in-law's garden).

Tulips

The tulips grow in my mother-in-law's allotment garden
which is located "just behind the block of flats" she lives in.
It is nice that even in the very centre of the town
the people try to be close to nature.

Green fields

Well, although Katowice is an industrail city (bordering with other industrial cities), there seems to be some agriculture here (this photo was actually takien on the way from Siemianowice Śląskie to Bytom).
Researchers in ecology claim that the Silesia region is "the most exposed to [ecological] hazards, in terms of both the concentration and range of excessive pollutants". What do they grow in this filed than? :-/

La gazza ladra

When I see this bird I don't think about Rossini, but about Marillion,
who used "The Thieving Magpie" as the title to their double album.
All Marillion fans - leave your comments under this post! :)

bare poplar trees

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dreary "winter" landscape

days are: gloomy, bleak, boring, colorless, depressing,
dismal, drab, dull, lifeless, monotonous, wearisome, windy....

I'm waiting for spring time.

Winter?

As there is no snow this winter, I'm posting a photo taken on 2nd November last year, when we woke up suprised by the "heavy snowfall" which lasted only two days ;) Actually I'm missing winter.

Clouds and sunset

Mother Nature unfolds yet another of her great spectacles...
clouds, bare trees and sunset.

More autumn leaves

I've been into photographing nature recently...