Sea of green

The last day of April, Walpurgis night, or Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish, is traditionally a day when you greet the spring, bonfires of twigs and branches are lit to clean up the old debris, chase away the evil spirits and make room for the fresh and new. 

If yesterday was calm and wind free, today was its opposite, we've had twelve metres per second winds, which must mean that some bonfires won't be lit this evening. It's been sunny and nice though, and rather warm and inviting outdoors. 

I decided yesterday to cut all the grass on my meadow-to-be below my house, it's quite a large area and it took me several hours to get through it with my old, heavy, no-drive-on the-wheels mower. I've lived here for three years and have never cut the grass before this early, in fact I've never cul all of it before, usually I leave it and make paths, then, in the autumn I cut it with a scythe. But last autumn I learned that if I want a meadow with flowers I have to cut the grass early, when it gets thick and semi-long, otherwise there's no chance that the flowers will get the light and air they need to grow, the grass simply suffocates the low plants, steal nutrition and stops everything else from developing. So that's the test for this year. Right now it looks like a green desert but hopefully  it will give space for flowers and lower plants to grow.