Yard News

Spring has finally arrived! After a very long, cold winter we finally welcomed five days of temps in the 50s and even 60s. There is only one small patch of icy snow left in the yard, and even the mud is beginning to firm up. I anticipate that last snow spot will melt tomorrow -- only 161 days since it arrived last November.

I did a quick yard walk this evening and saw many beautiful, wonderful, amazing and long-overdue signs of life -- the irises are poking new spears through the dirt, new growth is visible on the strawberry plants, one green leaf is emerging from the chrysanthemum, fresh bright hollyhock and four-o'clock leaves are showing and the lilacs foretell a bushy summer (hopefully with blossoms too!). I was also encouraged to see that the lower stems on my rose bushes still bear a hint of green (most of the branches are black -- frozen to death), and that the poor mini evergreens that look so terribly brown are budding as well.

In other exciting yard news, Wade and I (but mostly Wade) put the lattice up on the arbor we (but mostly Wade) built last summer. Now it's ready for climbers -- clematis, raspberries and some unnamed wild thing a neighbor offered to give me cuttings from.




This is such a happy time of year!