Anemone nemorosa, the wood anemone, vitsippa

Home today, and taking it easy. We skipped breakfast and drove into town to buy lunch (Brunch actually). When we got back there was a large packet in front of the door, the new tent fabric for our kayak tent that died in the winter. So the afternoon job was removing the old fabric and starting preparations for fixing the new outside onto what is storage for the kayaks, lawn-mowers, and much other garden paraphernalia.
While we were away over the weekend the buds on the trees turned into leaves, the grass started to really green up, and blossom appeared on our plum tree and on the honeyberry bushes. What a difference in only 2 days!  This is the "exploding spring" we expected when the cold weather hung on so long through the spring-winter.
Part of that explosion is the appearance, almost from nowhere, of wood anemones all over town, the forest, and even in our garden. They are nothing we have planted but we are very happy to see them appear in our lawn, or arond the boundary areas of the garden.
Like most plants in Scandinavia, and many in other parts of the world, they were first named (Anemone nemorosa) and classified by Carl Linnaeus, in this case in 1753. They are a real marker of spring, and like their blue cousins - Anemone hepatica (blipped 5 May) everyone in Sweden loves to see these flowers appear. They show us summer is on the way, or like just now, that maybe summer has arrived!!