Imbolc, spring, and the earth awakens
It’s so nice to be able to write a blog before shoulder surgery and then publish it with one click later. Typing one finger hunt and peck is not fun, […]
Tag Archives: spring
Onion sets……let the gardening begin!
Serious thoughts of gardening begin when the hardware store downtown gets their onion sets. These little dandies planted and left in the ground about 6 weeks give you the […]
Best sign of spring
My little teeny crocus are up out behind the house. The smallest crocus I’ve ever seen, and the earliest flower ever here. I’ve seen them snowed on on occasion, […]
Some bamboo is still frozen to the ground
We’ve had a really hard winter. It’s the longest time period that I’ve ever had bamboo laying down, frozen to the ground with snow still on and around it. Most […]
Robins!
It’s a lousy picture, cos he was a long ways away, but this bird is our sign that spring will come to Pennsylvania. Robins leave here late in August and […]
Winter just won’t go away
Some say it’s just an ordinary Pa winter. It probably is, but it’s the worst one I can remember for a long time, like since I was a kid. It […]
Imbolc, spring and the goundhog
We can light candles all winter in our feeble human attempt to bring back the light. Whether we do that or not, Imbolc is a special day if you’re tired of winter […]
Grafted cherry tree
There is an old cherry tree in the yard that used to be half white and half pink flowers. Some of the grafted part has died out over the years […]
OK, enough already
OK, it’s pretty and now we need spring. Next week’s temps look like they’ll be in the 50’s. Yesterday out back I saw a robin and a snow bird 6′ […]
The crocus survived the snow………..
The little crocus, the smallest I ever saw, and always the first thing thru the ground, survived the snow. They are spreading and I don’t know how/why, and I don’t […]
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