A sad April landscape and a cheerful river (15pics)

Greetings, my friends
What is the main color of April in my area? I will say that it is a little depressive gray, or rather, dark gray-brown. And only on sunny days, the color of a clear blue sky is added. And in the morning, a slight yellowness is added from warm sunlight. The main winter color (white) disappears and the color of dead grass appears from under it. It's a pretty boring sight.

According to my long-term feelings, spring has come ahead of schedule. Now I will see a similar landscape until about the middle of May. I hope that the snow will disappear from this picture in a week. But Nature will not add green color to its pictures yet. Or maybe a miracle will happen and the trees will start to bloom leaves and grass will start to grow earlier than usual. It all depends on the temperature of the soil.









The absence of foliage on the trees exposes the health of these trees. This tree is sick, a fungus eats it. Many trees are affected by such a disease, both wild in the forest and cultured in our gardens. I started noticing this about 6-7 years ago. It is incredibly depressing that the fungus affects cherries, apples, and pears. Who is to blame for this? Human activity or some kind of climatic changes contribute to the development of fungal spores.






It's just that last year's seed airplane did not fly off the tree, but remained at the "airfield".



Willow. This is the most beloved spring tree not only in our region, but also in the whole of Russia. And not only in Russia, but also in Ukraine and Belarus. This is connected with the Christian faith, with the description of the coming of Jesus to Jerusalem.
For me, it's just a beautiful spring phenomenon - the blooming of such soft buds on willow branches.






This year, the river threw off its ice shell earlier than usual by about 2 weeks. Now it is very interesting to stand by the river and listen to her voice. Yes, the river is talking, or rather, it is the ice floes floating on the river that communicate with each other. They rub against each other and create a very interesting rustling. But we must admit that the river talks like this not only in spring, but also in autumn because in autumn the ice does not grow evenly on the river and small ice floes floating along the shore touch the ice, which is already just standing along the shore. When my dog first saw this phenomenon, she barked at the ice floes and wanted to bite them. It was very funny.









Well, the walk ends. I have a lot of day's work ahead of me. With age, time accelerates its run, the hands on the clock move much faster than it was in childhood. This is especially noticeable in the spring. Daylight hours are increasing, but the number of different cases is also increasing, which contributes to the fact that night comes very quickly, but things may not be finished.






I have an oak tree from which the leaves do not fall to the ground in autumn. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because of the neighborhood of pine trees, but every spring this small oak stands with last year's leaves, which fall off after the budding of fresh buds on the branches.