Strolling around Solec, Powiśle and Sródmieście in May.

Some recent strolling about the city on the May holidays has let me finally snap some more things to show. Spring is in full swing, as my sinuses are telling me today....

Late buds, most trees are full of green and flowers now.

Superwoman and the ever changing displays around the Sejm

Stunning Starling.

Golden steps

The May 3rd Constitution 5km race first man.

And first woman.

The linear park which borders Powiśle/Solec and Sródmieście

Snake hooks

Plac Zbawiciela as pretty as a picture.... not sure how he gets the graffiti into the painting.....

Early buds of Spring

 Well, these photos are getting close to a year old, so I really should get them up to help us all remember the lovely sunny days there were previously. Not so much these cold and grey days now full of snow, and winds that make your eyes want to jump out and run away to the tropics.

"Wanna play? Try these claws on for siz"

"I dare you"

Hey Buddy

Apple Bud

Tree morse code

Pondering the days to come with leaves.

Please click Lichen, I am sure it is German for like.

Lichen the old days...

The little house on the prairie.

Come on Spring.... You can't be too far away!

Bud-dy, it is bloomin' marvellous

It is that time of the year when all is alive with blooms, buds, bugs, and green explosions. It is spring time in the metropolis. Seriously, after the slumber of winter the time when spring really kicks in is something miraculous in the city. You forget during the snow and leafless period that there are actually so many living things around you.

The last few days have been almost tropical with some bright warm sun then heavy afternoon showers only to fine up again. It has created a huge surge in life in the urban environment. Soon there will be wild flowers growing up through cracks, grasses taking over steps and trees branching out into walkways torturing pedestrians and humanised buggies that are prams. It is a great battle for the next 6 months as the green environment starts to dominate what during the white ice and snowy times feels like only concrete and hard surfaces. I popped out with the macro lens on the weekend to find some examples of what is around and abound.

Young and delicate

Budding out

Poland Pollen

A supermarket, oh no it is a real ladybird

Entomologist porn

A pop of colour

Apple blossoms

The old and the withered

Wrinkled past and crisp new growth

Some colour in these leaves

A baby elderflower.

Bud

Black and White flora

Like a whirling dervish

Ready to burst

Spiky and phallic

A rosehip prepares to bloom.