Spring

[QuantumTroll]

Describe spring where you live!

The nights are light -- the sun sets at 9 and it never gets quite dark. The trees don't have their full leaves yet so the sun reaches the forest floor and illuminates patchy fields of white, blue, and yellow flowers with pale green light. It is magic. As time goes on, the canopy closes and the flowers are replaced with a deep and rich green, in which treasure silently waits until summer's warmth and the start of the season of berries and mushrooms.

Migrating birds, small songbirds, tall waders, flapping geese, each species follows its own schedule and one by one enriches the auditory landscape with its contribution until the symphony is complete. Cool morning hours in a meadow filled with lilies, birds chirp their joy.

Oh, I almost forgot the ecstasy of cows let out into pasture after a long winter, hopping about like calves, and the year's lambs first happy rambles in the open. To see the world from their eyes!

The longer I spend living at the edge of a great forest and in the country, the more spring becomes my favorite season. Though I do also love the berries and mushrooms of autumn, the warmth of summer, and the stark beauty of winter...

[Metacrock]

Describe spring where you live!

The nights are light -- the sun sets at 9 and it never gets quite dark. The trees don't have their full leaves yet so the sun reaches the forest floor and illuminates patchy fields of white, blue, and yellow flowers with pale green light. It is magic. As time goes on, the canopy closes and the flowers are replaced with a deep and rich green, in which treasure silently waits until summer's warmth and the start of the season of berries and mushrooms.

Migrating birds, small songbirds, tall waders, flapping geese, each species follows its own schedule and one by one enriches the auditory landscape with its contribution until the symphony is complete. Cool morning hours in a meadow filled with lilies, birds chirp their joy.

Oh, I almost forgot the ecstasy of cows let out into pasture after a long winter, hopping about like calves, and the year's lambs first happy rambles in the open. To see the world from their eyes!

The longer I spend living at the edge of a great forest and in the country, the more spring becomes my favorite season. Though I do also love the berries and mushrooms of autumn, the warmth of summer, and the stark beauty of winter...

two Bergman films that make me really want to see spring in Sweden: Smiles of a Summer night and The Virgin Spring. Both black and white but they make it seem really appealing.


Here's a Google image search I did on "Sweden in Spring."

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sit ... J5Gp6SWiYs

The Virgin Spring

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sit ... 8rJBSaI0ac

Although there's not a single picture of the scene that made the country side look really appealing. the background of this one kind of hints at it:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8nVRS34Yi_w/S ... +Karin.bmp

Smiles of a Summer Night

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sit ... 70&bih=425

this one hints at it:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_ ... -ray_5.jpg

this one

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sit ... B348%3B490

[QuantumTroll]

You might like this a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNkMKoKWEJE

It's a comedy by some other Swedish masters, usually just called Hasse & Tage, that is all about defending Swedish nature from an evil German investor. There are elements from old local folktales and the theme song is written and performed by Evert Taube, who was one of our most beloved national bards. And nice scenery, of course!

The linked video should have English subtitles.

[Metacrock]

You might like this a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNkMKoKWEJE

It's a comedy by some other Swedish masters, usually just called Hasse & Tage, that is all about defending Swedish nature from an evil German investor. There are elements from old local folktales and the theme song is written and performed by Evert Taube, who was one of our most beloved national bards. And nice scenery, of course!

The linked video should have English subtitles.

that looks pretty good. I think I'll see if I can get that on netflix. is that a whole movie?

[Metacrock]

Joan Baez singing "Wild Moutian Thyme." a spring like folk song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3737N-rUXA

[QuantumTroll]

You might like this a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNkMKoKWEJE

It's a comedy by some other Swedish masters, usually just called Hasse & Tage, that is all about defending Swedish nature from an evil German investor. There are elements from old local folktales and the theme song is written and performed by Evert Taube, who was one of our most beloved national bards. And nice scenery, of course!

The linked video should have English subtitles.

that looks pretty good. I think I'll see if I can get that on netflix. is that a whole movie?

Yeah, it's a full-length movie. It seems to be on Youtube in its entirety, if Netflix doesn't carry it.

[Metacrock]

on city of God board the thread "did not see that coming." Swedish students rioting.

[met]

Describe spring where you live!

The nights are light -- the sun sets at 9 and it never gets quite dark.

doesn't get dark here (in Vancouver Canada ) until about 10:00. Where are you - what latitude?

[Metacrock]

Describe spring where you live!

The nights are light -- the sun sets at 9 and it never gets quite dark.

doesn't get dark here (in Vancouver Canada ) until about 10:00. Where are you - what latitude?

Dallas Texas, we have day light savings so it get's dark about 9-9:30. It would get dar around 8 or 8:30 but we put the clocks back on a certain date. Sunrise is a 6am sharp. Around March it starts having Tornados and big thunderstorms. Although the last couple of years we have drought so not much rain. But in normal year we had big storms mark Spring, get bad in April and May tapper off in June. When it's not storming it's sunny and hot. Lots of green, bushes and trees and wild flowers bursting out everywhere. It's beautiful.

We have blue bonnets in Texas, they are planted along the highway and all over and make these beautiful fields of blue.

[QuantumTroll]

Those Blue Bonnets are beautiful!

Met, I'm situated at around 60° latitude, so about 10° farther north than Vancouver (according to my fast googling).