Now here's a pretty picture.  

 

You're welcome.

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!

 

It is so exciting!!!  On our walk we saw almost all the Bradford Pears starting to bloom.  They are so bright and white:  we can see them across the hills, and over the ridges.  

 

Spring is on its way to the mountains.  YAY!!!!

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!

 

Spring is happening here!  Here is my favorite Forsythia bush blooming outside my kitchen window.  

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!!

 

Here's one!!!  Tête-à-tête, head to head.  I love these.

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!

 

When I looked at these daffodils in the afternoon light they seemed to glow.

 

I think daffodils are my absolute favorite flowers!!!

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!

 

I sowed these arugula seeds on February 17th too.  But they are outside, and it's been kinda cold.  Last week I saw some green coming up in this bed, but it was chickweed.  

 

I check the bed every day, and I took this picture the first day I saw the arugula coming up:  March 2nd.  It's funny:  in summer when the soil is warm these seeds sprout in three days.  When the soil is cold, like it has been lately, it takes almost two weeks.  Anyway, we have arugula.  Yay!!!

 

 

HAPPY SPRING!!!

 

 

 

 

 

We noticed the buds on the Bradford Pears are getting fatter.  Yippee!!!  They should start to open up in the next couple weeks.  Last year they bloomed mid-March, and the year before it was the first week of March.  So, get ready for the big show:  it's starting to happen.

 

HAPPY MARCH!!!

 

We have tiny daffodils too.  Mine are Tête-à-tête Narcissus that we planted years ago.  I'm pretty sure that my neighbors' tiny daffodils are the same, but there are SO many varieties of Narcissus that I can't be positive of theirs.  

 

Tête-à-tête means head to head, and sometimes two flowers will bloom on a single stem.  That's how I remember the name, and I love seeing it when it happens.   

 

 

HAPPY ALMOST SPRING!!!

 

I am so glad our neighbors planted these little daffodils.  They have been here only a couple years, and they are already multiplying.  We get to see them when we walk down to the creek.  

 

I hope you have daffodils blooming where you are.  But, just in case, I've heard that they are available this time of year at Trader Joe's.  ;)

 

 

HAPPY MARCH!!!