So good,

it was +5 degrees C yesterday when Nuffle's plane landed and when he walked through the town, smelling the air and thinking the spring was making its way over here. How do I keep him from looking or venturing outside today?

It's not that often that we get visitors,

especially those coming from the southeast side of the apartment. I actually know of only two cases. The first was in the fall. We have this tiny, old fashioned fridge in the flat. It needs to be turned off or to the warmest setting every once in a while (luckily just once so far) to melt the ice from the freezer compartment. And this is what I did that day. I took out the plastic containers holding summer's berries tenderly picked and packed by Grandma and set them outside, on the windowsill. Sure enough, not 10 minutes went past when a big white seagull came, landed next to the boxes and started nudging them...

This time it was that we had brought beer from a store but it wasn't cold enough so to keep it cooler between the sips I stuck the bottle between inner and outer window. I think the bird was just bored and very curious and looking for a reason to come spend some time with humans.

So this picture and a few others taken this winter are up on Mike's gallery in the Estonia album. Maybe one day the Christmas snaps will be up as well.