Sounds of Spring

The sun is out. The bulldozers are cleaning up the beaches, the bar owners are placing chairs outside and I'm off to Britain in a couple of weeks. That guarantees Virgin trains will not be running.
Here's a link to outside today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxJjOTomQs

It's Underneath You

And so the Spring Symphony begins. Number 23 on electric hedge clippers. Number 25 on pressure spray. Number 31 on chain saw. Number 15 mending motorbike engine. Number 16 wailing dogs. Numbers are not exact but you get the idea.
Number 23 arrives from France and immediately starts to shape the leaves on his olive tree into the shapes of silver-green pom poms. I feel quite sorry for it.
Here's a link to a short animation which is beautifully done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4UVh_rxups&feature=related