SNOW!

It has snowed almost non-stop this whole week. We probably got 8-10 inches. Pretty. And pretty effective at cooling down my spring fever. I'm still thinking about gardens, but I spent some time finishing up a quilt this last week, rather than ordering seeds.

 Apple tree last night. (on right)



 Apple tree this morning.

 Snowy backyard.

 Closeup of big pine tree out front.

 Pine tree out front.

The view out my kitchen window.

Spring Fever

I've got at least a month to go, and I'm filling my head with plans and ideas from several different seed catalogs. A whole lot of wishful thinking is all it amounts to so far. The only thing I've decided for sure is that I want to plant violas around the base of our apple trees. A friend told me that the university usually has a big plant sale beginning of April and another in May, which would be a good place to find all my warm weather veggies--tomatoes, peppers, herbs, etc. 

Now if it would just warm up enough to get the garden beds finished, I would have some hope of actually putting in a garden this year.

Hope for spring to come sometime soon:
--I saw a robin a few weeks ago, when all winter it's been magpies and quail.

--Something peeking up here:

Not sure what these are but they make me think spring may be really be coming after all!