Taste of Tree

So ti is getting to be spring. I see clouds only about once a week instead of seeing the sun only about once a week. Flowers are busting out in white, yellow, purple, pink and blue all over the forest floor which is increasingly green. And at the base of all of these trees there are old soda bottles and water bottles with the tops cut off propped up against them. Because they are birch trees and the bottles are being filled with birch juice. You can get the juice to run into the bottle by inserting a piece of metal in the shape of a "V" into the trunk of the tree. The juice straight from the tree tastes like very minerally water. However, people usually boil it with lemon, sugar and sometimes berries. It is sealed into jars and enjoyed all year round.
And yesterday on a cool but gorgeous day we drank some straight from the tree at our weekly bbq in the forest. And I said it was "taste of tree" which is a play on an ad slogan here.
It feels so nice to be enjoying gorgeous days with good friends.
For spring break I am not going to odessa anymore as the weather is beautiful but sill pretty cold. And most everyone I know had quarantine as I mentioned before so I am the only person I know with a full spring break. but I am going to visit my friend Sharece from training in Vinnytsya in Central Ukraine.