I am happier these days. I was vaccinated 12 April, which made me more relaxed. It was a very well organized operation in the old movie house in Pasewalk. Once we were shown inside the building by Budeswehr soldiers, all went very smoothly, polite and professional. The set up inside was designed very sensibly and I spent maybe 20 minutes there in total, including wait time after the vaccination. Hopefully it will work the same way when I am there for the second dose of Moderna vaccine.
We were told that from this week onwards the real spring is springing, plus the builder is finishing the holiday flat. We still had frost last night but that’s it apparently. I hope it’s true and my peach tree in the lower garden will perform well this year. I took this photo a few minutes ago and hope that those beautiful blooms are here not only to be admired but will bear fruit too. I wish I could get rid of the pine growing here (I cannot do anything about multitude of pines on the other side of my fence), but have no heart to cut it. It’s been here a few long years I assume, and hopefully will die a natural death one day. I am not fond of non indigenous greenery anywhere and there are too many conifers and other plants which don’t belong around here. To me they are waste of space.
My garden is still not very tidy. I don’t like to work outside in the cold and left it until now. I am intending to use part of it and leave part of it to wildlife to do their thing. When I walk along my fence checking new lilacs I planted early spring, I hear and see bees. There are many residing in little holes in the soil, so no lawnmower will ride over their homes. I’ll rake dead grass and cut it down by hand here and there.
Above is the view of the lake from the top garden. Peonies (red leaves) are coming out and irises too. They probably need to be thinned and replanted. Have no idea what the yellow flowers are, but it must be something exotic because bees don’t sit on them. I must say that Californian poppies are excellent here, although not indigenous. I just throw seeds around and they grow everywhere, in all kinds of colours and bees love them.
Lakehaus Lebehn 