Not Theresa (though my British friends tell me she sucked too). Just the weather. May in Denmark usually has two or three weeks of gloriously hot sunshine during which everything explodes out of the ground in a cornucupia of scent and colour.
Not so this year. It’s been mostly cloudy and rainy. But in between the rain there’s been a few days where the sun came out (and even two that had summer-like temperatures). I managed to grab a few good shots in the garden and elsewhere, without getting drenched.
Without further ado, the pictures of May (such as May was).
The garden
Most of our garden is bee and small animal friendly but that doesn’t mean we don’t have beautiful colours.
I am in love with the colours of our poppies. Sure, they’re nothing special. Just poppies. But have you looked at that intense flame?For a beautiful blue stained cheramic pot, we need something blue. Decorative sage coupled with good old mint will provide aromatherapy all summer—provided that summer ever happens.Find the pink tulips in a sea of pink rhododendrons.The first tulips competing with the first bluebells, before the rhododendrons came into bloom.Okay, now everything is in bloom.I love the intense blue of the bluebells. Scillas. Spanish boys. Whatever you prefer to call them.A close-up of that decorative sage. It smells as good as its colour is intense.Well. Yeah. It wouldn’t be our garden if there were no dandelions. Dandelions are allowed in our lawn.The old man prefers to lie in the shade these days. I’ve been trying to get a good picture of him for a long time, and this one does capture his contemplative old man attitude.
Skærup Zoo
There were two warm days, and we made them to the zoo in one. Out of about 1200 pictures a few were worth sharing (I’m still learning this camera).
This little squirrel was the embodiment of curious. I bet he wishes he had a camera to take pictures of me too.No, really.Meerkats do the meerkat thing.This kookaburra has the perfect expression. I absolutely loved his go-away face. Do not disturb the kookaburra in the sun.Don’t wake up the goose half of the geese-and-old-farm-implements exhibition, either.Curious George is alive and well.This one was my favourite animal though. A park employee turned up early for lunch and took a nap in the sun. Later, he raided every other employee’s lunchpack, then went back to sleep. Talk about having it made.
