Serendipity

Hello world! This is Saby. Today I'd like to tell you about something special that I saw on Friday, 1st of April.

It was a lovely, bright spring morning with a blue sky, and early spring bird song: blue tit, chaffinch, and those blackbirds who risked to stay overwinter. I was on my way to my duties, and chance had it that I get off the bus one stop later than normally. Luckily it wasn't much farther than the earlier stop.

As I stepped into the bright pale sunlight I head something peculiar: a light rain was falling. The asphalt was dry, though, and the sky cloudless. I turned to look to my left: the tiny batch of young birches was bleeding diamonds.

It was too bright to get a proper photo and I'm afraid I don't know how to post the short video I filmed at a high enough quality.

Here's an artsy-fartsy photo instead.¹

Even though I've seen birches all my life, I haven't seen anything like this before. I tried to figure out what was causing these maybe two to three dozen trees to rain while others didn't--I looked up and every little shoot seemed to have a glistening drop at its tip, especially in the younger parts of the tree. Maybe some sort of rare insect attack of unusual notoriety?

If you have guesses (educated or not), please feel free to comment below.

Have a lovely April, and welcome to my blog.

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1. Also a pretty accurate depiction of how it feels to step from a dim bus to bright spring sunlight.^↩