21 March is long gone, but you still must believe in spring. This is the toughest time of the year in Sweden. Days are getting longer, but spring does not show-up. Finally, flowers have blossomed in Stockholm in the past week, a bit in advance compared with previous years. Belisama is ready to sail, but temperatures are still fluctuating around 0°C, and we are waiting for better conditions for the first cruise of the year.
The cherry trees on Kungsträdgården are at their best. But snow remains around. Weird!
Being land borne these days, the question remains what the weather has for us every morning... And these days, we have had snow couple of times every week, sometime piling-up before disappearing.
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| Västmannagatan 26, from the kitchen window... |
Belisama has spent the winter water borne. I am spending most of my free time these days preparing her for the new season. Lots of small things to do... such as installing a tracker device for theft protection, a gauge to monitor real-time the position of the centre board, additional 12 volts plugs everywhere, updating the software for the chart plotter, fixing bunch of bugs in the configuration of the NMEA network (thanks to R... Marine who installed it), bringing new plants on board, in short, just making it more and more cosy.
Earlier this week, I was cleaning the roof with the Kärcher when I witnessed the sun(s) that the Roman Emperor Constantine saw before winning
the battle of Milvian Bridge, which resulted in his conversion to christianism.
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| Wasahamnen marina |
You can see such fake suns (sun dogs in English, vädersol in swedish, meaning weather sun) in a
painting in the Stockholm cathedral. This is the same phenomenon observed in Stockholm on 20 April 1535. Obviously, April remains April, years after years, since then...
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