When Spring came to visit

Last week it finally looked like winter was over for this time. The sun and warm winds started to thaw the snow and ice and I wasn`t slow to put together the metaldetetor and get out there. Every day I went to a small ravine where a lot of stuff got dumped , burned and buried after the Liberation in 1945. It was great being out in the woods smelling the forest and seeing it come to life again.

It wasn`t long before I had a good signal I wanted to check out but the blade of the shovel couldn`t penetrate the soil many centimeters. The perma frost north of the Polar Circle goes deep and makes the ground rock solid but I wasn`t prepared to let climatic details like that stop me from finally digging again. I dug and scraped away the soil as deep as I could , around 6-7 cm and when I had a good square opened around the signal I just have to let it sit like that untl the next day and continue the process getting a few centimeters deeper every day. I opened 3 holes like it and after a week I had dug them to around 30-40 cm deep. So far I`ve only found scrap metal pieces , some bottles and ceramic bits and several heel irons from german boots but there is still very promising signals under the frozen soil.
 One day I had been in the forest for maybe only twenty minutes when I felt a chill and heard a wooshing sound , I looked up and couldn`t see anything behind the trees,it was all white , King Winter had returned , and it have been cold,raining and snowing everyday since. There was no choice but to curse the meterologists and get to the car. But, the hope is that spring is still out there somewhere ready to return.