Spring is here!

After a winter like this, spring fever isn't really anything new. I already had them at the beginning of January, but they were always slowed down by the odd snowflake or cold snap. I even buried the remaining bulbs in February. It's actually already quite warm outside, but somehow I'm finding it hard to trust spring this year. I look anxiously at the flower buds on the pear tree - if they open now, there's a risk that they won't be pollinated, as it's still quite fresh for the bees and bumblebees when the sun isn't shining. The weather forecast doesn't give me any hope in this respect either, so the only thing that remains for me is the likelihood of such forecasts being inaccurate. It would be so nice if I could bake a cake with my own pears this year...

Speaking of pear tart: Have you seen the film "Pear Cake and Lavender"? It's a rarely seen film with so much hope in it, even though the main character, a young widow with two children in a small sleepy village in France, has no idea what to do and, as the wife of a popular and envied farmer, receives no support from the villagers. When she runs over a pedestrian on the little-used access road to her estate, everything starts rolling... The film has a happy ending, it has to, otherwise I wouldn't like it. There are films you buy because they're cheap and you think to yourself, if it's a flop, at least I didn't pay much for it. That's what I thought with this film too, but it turned out to be a gem. After watching it once, it not only made it into my top favourites, but also into my partner's favourites, even though he's more into westerns and action films and I even had to bribe him to watch it with me.

Maybe I should do the same with the pear tree as the people in the film - on a frosty night, they put large candles under the pear trees to prevent the blossoms from freezing. I'll have to google where you can get such candle pots. So enjoy the short spring sequences, because you never know if and when winter will come...