After a warm and sunny weekend...
Winter, who is not one to be upstaged, came back for an encore performance.
Yes, we awoke to this yesterday.
Just one day before, it looked like this....
Four inches of snow fell overnight...
covering all evidence of Spring with a heavy blanket of white.
Our daffodils and tulips are up but not yet blooming.
With buds ready and willing... once this snow melts, everything will burst into blossom...
and color will once again return to our world.
For now, though, it all remains asleep... an early spring nap.
I suspect that this is the last snow... perhaps the onion snow.
Regardless, I will be planting my onion sets as soon as I can once again see soil.
Within these blanketed garden boxes,
lie tiny seeds... ready and waiting for germination.
I've planted sugar peas, radishes, and spinach.
Cool weather crops.
I'll be seeding for some salad greens later this week.
It's that time again.
Can't you feel it?
The earth is re-awakening.
Beneath the snow, the grass in my garden is turning the brightest green ...
greener than the grass outside the garden...
I suspect the result of very rich soil.
(Who could have suspected that only 12 hours later everything would be under a wintry quilt.) |
This year I am planting a variety of beans in my garden...
legumes to dry for the following winter.
I'll also be adding another fairy garden,
and have fairy tea parties planned for myself and my little people.
This snowfall is a test... a test of patience for me.
With so many ideas and plans just waiting to bring to fruition...
another snowfall keeps my enthusiasm in check and challenges my ability to wait.
Patience... patience...
everything in its own time.
This is my mantra for today.
Today.
A day to rest, to dream, to prepare.
One more day to keep on my boots...
and patiently await running barefoot through fragrant spring grass.
Patience.
They say it's a virtue.
I will try to be virtuous.
We still have April showers ahead of us.
(I had better keep those boots ready for a little longer!)
(I had better keep those boots ready for a little longer!)
And by the way, the guineas finally found out what happens when
they refuse to come in at curfew!
"We have rules... and rules are there for a reason!"
They're not so good with following rules.
But then neither am I... so I guess the guineas and I have that in common!
"We have rules... and rules are there for a reason!"
They're not so good with following rules.
But then neither am I... so I guess the guineas and I have that in common!
Comments
Love the second pic of Sam's(I hope that's the right name?)stoic acceptance of the weather. Love his expression! A bit disgruntled,perhaps...
Mary
P.S. Hubbs looks so really relaxed now, retirement fits him well. His only stress comes from your "Honey do" list?
It always happens . . . In itts time . . .
Called SPRING when it happens . . .