The Warmest Day Yet

It's super warm today!  If this were July, I'd be posting about how cold it is, but 56 degrees in March is so wonderful.  I was out in short sleeves!

The yellow crocus continue to open up, and some tulips in my warmest bed are poking their heads up out of the soil.  Wandering through the gardens I'm struck by how much clean up I have to do.  I always leave the seed heads up over winter for the birds, but now I have lots that need to be cut back.  The asters and goldenrod are lying on the ground, and the cone flowers and shasta daisies all need to be trimmed.  Plus all the daylily stems sticking up!  I've a feeling my back is going to be protesting the amount of bending required.

And another!

Small Signs

There has been some minor movement, and a neighbor.

Snowdrops

Well, it appears that the bulbs really are stretching and waking --the first snowdrop has appeared. Rob took this photo on February 27th.

Thinking Spring

It's time to start thinking spring again. As I drove home from teaching today, I realized that the Sun angle is making it look more like spring and less like winter. It's interesting how something that you're only peripherally aware of can change the way you feel. It just feels more like spring --although not really spring-like yet. Although we don't have fresh snow, and there is a lot of bare ground visible, we do still have piles of icy snow left from the blizzard that dumped over a foot in most places. Still, the temperatures seems to creep up above freezing most afternoons, so things are wet, rather than frozen solid.

I've gotten a couple of catalogs, and I'm thinking about what I planted last year, and what I might want to add this year. It feels good.

Now we've gotten our first REAL snow! I think I can safely say the 2010 gardening season is over :-)

First snow!

We got our first snow today --appropriately on the first day of December :-) It's not much snow --just a powdery dusting, and it's verrryyy cold out!

However, it seems perfect since today is the first day we open a window on the Advent calendar, and put out a few Christmas decorations.