BLUEBIRDS !

Flashes of blue catch my eye, and life is good. There is something to that, with those bluebirds. More birds, more spring bulbs, hosta rising, quince flowering, forsythia, magnolia, grasses growing, and even some weeds ... here we go! Lots of work to do. 

Mr and Mrs

quince

Peppers!

wild garlic scapes

blue festuca grass back to life

hosta

Magnolia tree before...

Magnolia tree AFTER the frost :(

Spring Sprang !

Often here, the 1st day of spring feels much more like winter. Not so this year. Peas and garlic are up. Flowers are popping left and right. Trees are blooming. Grass is greening. Strange thing is, we still have 6 weeks before the danger of frost drops off! So, just like the plants and birds, we will certainly enjoy it all while we can!

PEPPER babies!

Highland Park (Fredrick L Olmstead)

Magnolia buds and blooms

cherry

paper bark maple

scillia

chives

rhubarb

andromeda

Another garden is BORN!

We cannot say it's been "a long hard winter". It was not. Even still, the sight of crocus blossoms in the lawn, and all the emerging tips of all the other waking plants, is always heartening in spring. They don't call it "spring!" for nothing. Each year it's another set of  miracles.

crocus 

emerging parsley seedling...first seeds planted indoors

first parsley leaves about to open...seed shell still atttached

new rhubarb about to "POP pop"

garden soil aerated by freeze-thaw cycles 

PEAS! ... first seeds planted outdoors (earliest ever this year)

peas

Sandra's mushroom garden indoors (Thank you Heather and Roger!)

Mmmmmmmm!

What is THIS? Was this the last little gasp of winter last week?? We shall see.

March-ing !

Marching, growing, blooming, walking, thawing, flowing, showing, facing, dancing!

Eranthus winter aconite, blooms even in snow before everything else.

more orchid landscape

shadow snow... cool!

springing

alien contact

scotty

melt

Blue heron nests... still empty so far

man in tree

shady character 

bark bark

snow schrooms

pretty dancer