A little project with the kids to get them off the xbox. Cosmos Purity seedlings grown indoors and replanted in a trough.

Bulbs planted in troughs last October.  I forgot to label everything so it has been a nice surprise to see what emerges.

Will go through my photos later on, see if I can find something to post too.

Today I re-did the trip shown in Springtime Romantic Roundtrip six years ago in reverse direction. Getting off at Szokolya station on the standard-gauge branchline, most of the forest is still 'transparent':

These modern DMUs are temporary visitors here, for the time their 'home' line (in a region populated by well-off exurbanites) is in total closure for an EU-funded upgrade. The station is a half-hour walk from the village across a water divide between two creeks, hence the single other passenger. On the water divide, the cows were out in the field:

On the other side of the water divide, overlooking the south end of the village. In the distance right of centre is the castle hill of Visegrád, the village along the Danube which gave its name to the Visegrád Four.

Interesting tree with shadow on the outskirts of Szokolya village. (As for the ugly concrete power mast: an exclusive for asdf.)

The grass is green but the trees don't yet obscure the village church completely (church bells were tolling when I shot the photo).

No sign of spring except the grass, but interesting signs galore. The building on the right is the village savings association.

An old man walks home as the narrow-gauge DMU approaches in the distance. I'll be damned if I know the name of the decorative brush with the yellow flowers.

At terminal station Kismaros, the railcar is shunting.

In Kismaros I arrived on the sunny north side of the wider Danube valley. You see some flowers on the edge of the cutting of the mainline station.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

Today is still on the fresh side, but the big novelty is to have the sunset at 9pm. Given that last time round we almost had snow, it feels like massive change...

Wind power

I believe the red/yellow one on the first two photos is a tulip, and the white flowers are poet's narcissi.

A pair of another type of red-yellow flowers:

General view of two flowering bushes (the yellow one must be Forsythia) and a flowering fruit tree and close-ups on each:

These could be lily-flowered tulips:

No flowers here, 'just' a man reaping grass for his cart-drawing horse, with the castle hill of Visegrád in the background:

Another view of the castle hill of Visegrád, this time from the pedestrian bridge of the mainline railway station of Kismaros, with the trees along the Danube visible. The purple flowers on the right should be syringa:

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

"Les chênes fleuris d'avril"

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}