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As I walked back from the shops today, I noticed this tree near my house. What a glorious red! This photograph doesn't do it justice.

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Spring has certainly sprung in Winterthur. Flowers are in full bloom, trees are in bud and people are lying in the park at lunchtime. Et ça c'est super!

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Another sunny day and, having persuaded the boys to come outside and enjoy before it turns cold, I took this photograph as I sat on a bench near our home.
The blossom - die Blüte - la fleur
Daisy -das Gänseblümchen - Gigigeisseli/ Geisseblüemli - la marguerite
Dandelion - der Löwenzahn - Chrottäpöschä, Sonnwendlig, Weyfläcke, Säuiblueme - le pissenlit (that one still amuses me nearly 30 years after I first heard it!)

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Another beautiful sunny day.
Rather than take a picture of us climbing on the bus with 2 garden chairs a table and 2 garden recliners (I was too busy carrying stuff!), here are some flowers in the park. Lovely to see them peeping through the grass.

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Yes, two photographs today as I wanted both of my boys in today's post.

We went on a family trip to Uetliberg and walked the Planetenweg to Felsenegg for lunch and a cable car ride down to Adliswil and home. Apparently there are a lot of Planetenweg  Plantenweg is a walk on which scale models of the planets are placed in scaled relation to their position in space. So the sun at the start was huge followwed by a tiny ballbearing for  Mercury, a bigger one for Venus and so on. These planets were close together on the path, with each metre representing a million actual kilometres, whilst other planets were further apart. And Pluto appeared twice due to its orbit.

So, today's German - the planets - die Planeten

Earth  die Erde

Jupiter  der Jupiter

Mars  der Mars

Mercury  der Merkur

Neptune  der Neptun

(Pluto)  der Pluto - now officially a “dwarf planet” (ein Zwergplanet)*

Saturn  der Saturn

Uranus  der Uranus

Venus  die Venus

If you fancy labelling them in order they are :

Die Planeten - Sonnenordnung

The planets in solar order (outward from the sun)...

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (Pluto)*

Der Merkur, die Venus, die Erde, der Mars, der Jupiter, der Saturn, der Uranus (der Pluto)

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I'm very behind with my posts this week as I have a German exam. on Friday.

So short posts I'm afraid!

Schöne Blumen - pretty flowers
der Frühling - Spring