From the street – Spring Street

Photo 1: You'll have to take my word for it that this door is quintessentially spring green. Two-tone roheline in fact – dark green details on light green. And quintessentially kevadine (vernal), since this wonderful tõe/hetk (moment of truth), full of helid ja lõhnad (sounds and smells) that everyone had forgotten existed, occurred on the corner of Kevade tänav (Spring Street) in central Tallinn, in what was soul-shaking 18 degree heat on esmaspäev, 9. aprill. It was a day of extremes: Tartu reached a high of 23,1 degrees, setting a new record, while huge piles of rüsi/jää (piled drift ice) were being admired on the shores of Peipsi järv, pushed up into high ridges at Nina village. The next morning, many places on the north coast woke up to yet another dusting of lumi (snow). Such fluctuations in temperature may be relatively common in Põhja-Ameerika, but not in Eesti.