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27 Feb 2010

spring is imminent

There's still plenty of ice on the bayous of Lobau, and most of the dirt roads there still are wet and muddy, a Napoleon's nightmare so to speak. (They were almost impassable last weekend as most were still covered in snow: which reminded me of how possibly Bonaparte's army might have felt when invading Russia.)

But most of the snow is gone - and the first flowers have come out! Galanthus nivalis - Schneeglöckerl: