And here I am again, after loooong time... Last half a year flew by very fast and not much exciting happened, we are quite well and our families also.
This year the winter was more "normal" or more how we knew it to be, it was rather cold, with some snow as well. We are feeding the birds every winter and this winter they flocked to our bird feeder again. I have very good and close view of the feeder from one of my windows, and I can hide beneath the curtain and freely watch and photograph them. The woodpecker (veliki detel) is a regular, this year one of his friends came by occasionally as well.
We do not see the Long-tailed tits (dolgorepke) every winter, but this winter they visited us often. How cute are they?
I got a great birthday present this year, a beautiful cast iron pot and I mastered my bread making technique. Winter is ideal time for such things.
And then, when we could already smell the spring, we got some snow again in April. Here is where the title of this post comes from, I remember titling one last year Sometimes it snows in April (like the song title from Prince or symbol or whatever). Unfortunately there was again some damage on plants and trees that just started to bud and prepared for blooming. Maybe next year the post title here will be It always snows in April?
In April we also sailed our boat from marina in Izola to marina in Pula, where her home base will be for the next year. Pula lays in Croatia on the point of the Istra peninsula and is an old Roman town with very pretty Amphitheater and other ruins. It is also a good starting point for sailing South.
This spring we were seeing lots of jellyfish, these are harmless and don't sting.
At the end of April spring finally arrived, in woods...
...and in my garden as well.
In May we made use of the nice weather and took my mom and her sister to a trip to Logarska dolina (valley), a very pretty place surrounded by mountains.
And then in June the weather switched gears and we got full blown Summer with over 30 degC almost every day. Captain is already on Heron since the beginning of the June, I had some work to do an am joining him tomorrow. We plan on sailing to Dalmatia and then return to Pula at the end of the month, and we will have some friends aboard occasionally. I'm looking forward to lots of good snorkelling and good company as well. So I guess the next post will be all about snorkelling and full of under water photos again.
