Spring is coming nearer.

 
I actually managed to forget posting this yesterday - so you're getting it today instead, and I'm sorry for the unexpected blog silence.

Spring is coming slowly nearer here, and I'm working on getting the willow fence into shape (as in pruned completely) before it's actually growing time again. There was some progress, as you can see here:

 


I'm not as far along as I would like to be, but there is some progress, and the weather is forecast to be pruning-friendly during the next few days as well.

The fence was put in in Spring 2012, so it's going to be 8 years now. It has changed a lot from the very orderly, very slender beginnings:



I find especially fascinating how the "heads" develop where the rods are pruned off every year:



They have their own kind of weird beauty, I think.