Linnut, oi linnnut

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Kuu kiurusta kesään, 

puoli kuuta peipposesta, 

västäräkistä vähäsen, 

pääskysestä ei päivääkään.

Month 'till summer if you see Lark, 

half a month if Finch, 

a little if Wagtail, 

not even a day if Swallow.

A Finnish saying.

Now that I've studied all the plants in our garden 

it might a perfect time to get started with ornithology.

🐦🐦🐦

Finnisch für Anfänger:

LINTU = Vogel / bird

Let's start with listening ... was recording some birdie sounds

during my morning walk in the garden.

More to come.

And pics, of course.

Playing with colorful pics

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In my last posting promised to post next time some colors.

Here they come.

Slightly modified garden pics.

Slightly.

Enjoy.

And the APP is called LAYOUT from Instagram.

Enjoy.

Grey, gray but different

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Let's find colours, one by one.

Yes, in the boring garden. So sorry about that.

Grey or gray?

Grey and gray are two different spellings of the same word. 

Gray is more common in the U.S., while grey is more common in other 

English-speaking countries. In proper names—like Earl Grey tea 

and the unit Gray, among others—the spelling stays the same, and 

they need to be memorized.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/gray-grey/

Most of the cameras have this option to play with one colour only.

Poppies!

Ficus elastica.

Finnisch für Anfänger:

KUMIPUU = Gummibaum / rubber tree

Same, same but different.

Strelizien, always, I tell you always attractive.

Weed, just weed.

Osteospermum.

Remember:

The scientific name Osteospermum is derived from the Greek osteon (bone) 

and Latin spermum (seed). It has been given several common names:  

African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy.

In Finnish: tähtisilmä.

Finnisch für Anfänger schon wieder:

TÄHTISILMÄ =  Kapkörbchen /blue-eyed daisy

TÄHTI = Stern / star

SILMÄ = Auge / eye

These you certainly recognize.

Pretty.

Spring time bush.

This season's last lemons.

Nispero. 

In my next posting promise to post pics with many, many and 

many colours. Those fabulous Majorcan colours.

BTW

Why not learn the British accent? Listen to this:

https://www.learningbritishaccent.com

Corona cleaning

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Times of corona.

Cleaning times, indeed.

Now that you really, really, really have time.

Now that this plant which I call "Flaschenbürste" starts blossoming.

Doesn't it look like a brush for cleaning bottles?

Buds.

Half open flower.

Finnisch für Anfänger:

LAMPPUHARJA = Zylinderputzer /callistemon

LAMPPU = Lampe / lamp

HARJA = Bürste / brush

This fantastic piece of art is actually ...

some fungus growing in our cellar. Pretty one.

Anyways, we did have this week the "Dia mundial del arte" on 15.4.20.

WORLD ART DAY

Yes, it is new:

World Art Day, a celebration to promote the development, diffusion 

and enjoyment of art, was proclaimed at the 40th session of UNESCO’s 

General Conference in 2019.

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldartday

Yesterday we finally spent half a day in the cellar.

That artsy piece had to be destoryed from the floor. Vanity!

The previous owners of our house had left cupboards full of

different kind os stuff. During our four years of ownership we 

have managed to clear off most of the cellar stuff,

like broken picture frames, rotten wooden shelves and

rusty nails and pieces of tubes and pipes and ... just name it.

Nevertheless, we had left some cupboards unattended in order to see if 

we still could use some of the old stuff. Yesterday was the day of the truth: 

nothing had we used.

Off they went: all bits and pieces collected from bathroom renovations:

tubes, faucet parts, shower heads, you name it. Meters and meters of 

electric cable as well as all kinds of tubes in short parts.

Sockets and tiny light bulbs for cars.

Nothing had we used.

Last but not least the paint collection.

Some had I used, indeed.

But half of the cans and bottles had to be thrown away,

many of them had a price label in DM / German Mark

- when did we switch to Euro?

Of course, I had to rescue those wooden boxes, they were still in fairly good 

condition as kept in the plastic cupboards ... Yes, and in the pink plastic bag 

I discovered some useful material for future crafting projects.

Seeing art again.

Lightening your cleaning day.

One of those wooden wine boxes had this interesting structure.

Art?

Yes. Some dry plants sticked into floral foam.

Preis auf Anfrage.

Again Finnisch für Anfänger:

KUKKASIENI = Blumensteckschaum / floral foam

This I just named "Naapurin Karen".

Preis auf Anfrage.

Finnisch für Anfänger:

NAAPURI = NachbarIn / neighbour

These pretty seedcases with velvety surface originate from 

Frankfurt from our garden. The climbing, fast growing plant is called 

Wisteria,  Blauregen, sinisade and has beautiful lilac flowers and 

stunning scent.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria

 People, stay safe.

Nispero note

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A note to myself.

In April this tree almost collapses under the heavy burden

of those delicious fruit. Yes, in our garden.

Note to myself: it is called Japaninmispeli.

Japaninmispeli (Eriobotrya japonica syn. Mespilus japonica), 

josta käytetään myös usein nimeä lokvatti ja nispero, on ruusukasvien heimoon 

kuuluva hedelmäpuu. Se on kotoisin Aasiasta ja sitä viljellään muun 

muassa Thaimaassa, Japanissa, Kiinassa, Espanjassa ja Portugalissa.

Japaninmispeli kasvaa 6–9 m korkeaksi puuksi. Sen varsi on lyhyt, 

lehvästö pyöreä. Uudet versot ovat villamaisen nukan peittämät. Ikivihreät, 

nahkeat lehdet muodostuvat noin 12–30 cm pitkistä, 7–10 cm leveistä lehdyköistä.

Hedelmät ovat yleensä ison luumun kokoisia ja hieman päärynänmuotoisia. 

Kuori samoin kuin hedelmälihakin on yleensä keltaista tai oranssia.

The German Wikipedia tells us:

Die Japanische Wollmispel (Eriobotrya japonica) 

ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung der Wollmispeln (Eriobotrya) der Kernobstgewächse 

(Pyrinae) in der Familie der Rosengewächse (Rosaceae). Sie ist auch als 

Japanische Mispel, Wollmispel, Mispero, Nespolo, Nispero oder Loquat 

bekannt. Im Japanischen heißt sie Biwa (ビワ oder 枇杷) 

und im Chinesischen Pipa (枇杷, pípa). 

Obwohl es ihr Name nahezulegen scheint, gehört die Japanische 

Wollmispel nicht zur Gattung der Mispeln.

Ahaa!

Eriobotrya japonica was formerly thought to be closely related to the genus 

Mespilus, and is still sometimes known as the Japanese medlar. It is also known 

as Japanese plum and Chinese plum, as well as pipa in China, and nespola in Italy.

The fruits are the sweetest when soft and orange. 

The flavour is a mixture of peach, citrus and mild mango.

Read more in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat

I tell you, they are delicious, direct from the tree.

Yes, the one is peeled already. 

Mind the seeds ... !

Wiki knows:

Like most related plants, the seeds (pips) and young leaves of the plant are 

slightly poisonous, 

containing small amounts of cyanogenic glycosides (including amygdalin) 

which release cyanide when digested, though the low concentration 

and bitter flavour normally prevent enough being eaten to cause harm.

You can see those nispero-trees everywhere on the island of Mallorca.

Kuvakaappaus: tripadvisor

All of you who have been in Frankfurt know this traditional restaurant

Adolf Wagner. Mispelchen is THE shot you enjoy after your meal.

Calvados with Mispel.

http://www.apfelwein-wagner.com/speisen-getraenke/getraenkekarte.html

You can buy Mispelchen online!

https://www.apfelwein-shop.de/delikates/46-wagner-mispelchen.html

Merry Christmas ... to all my Finnish friends who are enjoying

snow now in the middle of April!

My Christmas flower just started blossoming.

This week my sister sent me this pic from Fiskars.

Finnish springtime.

Alles Bohne oder was?

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Finnisch für Anfänger:

PAPU = Bohne / bean

We have this fairly large sink. 

My Palma friend always says se would love to have

the same one, perfect for cleaning her dog.

Anyways, it is also perfect for larger amounts of vegetables 

which need to be cleaned and washed.

Here you can see chard (Mangold), beans and in the pink basket

some peas, loquats (nísperos/Mispeln) and a cumquat.

Yes, indeed, the peas are bigger the peas.

Six packages now in freezer.

Kompostgut.

And, indeed, such nice forms and colors.

Peas and beans.

Beans with some color filter.

Tricky safari

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Fotosafari in the garden. Love and peace!

Touring with this little gadget.

Which one do you like the best?

Finnisch für Anfänger:

PRISMA = Prisma / prism

Prismenfilter, auch „Tricklinsen“ genannt, bilden mit drei oder mehr Flächen 

das Motiv mehrfach, teilweise verzerrt ab. (Wikipedia)

Und die Ampelschaltung ist jetzt ganz auf Mond gestellt.

Supermoon.