I used to do it every year somewhere around the 21st. The 21st sounds like spring. My thing was that I usually started looking for signs of it around the 21st of January or the 21st of February. By March the signs were the size of billboards so it was silly to say you were looking. By then everybody could see it.
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| Raspberry sorbet in its infancy |
So it was shocking to me this morning as I was sweeping and vacuuming and generally tidying up in the hen yard (hyperbole intended for those of you who may think I'm over the top on this neatness thing) that the raspberry canes were wriggling out vigorous shoots that would soon be branchlets 18" long with leaves and flowers and then soft, fat, sweet, warm berries, all this tucked into a slow motion explosion of life.
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Brunnera
First out and last in--a full-season bloomer |
A quick take around: the yard indeed looked like a billboard worthy of spring documentation.
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| Striped Iris |
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| Tulip cup filled to the brim with Oregon rain |
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| Lush moss |
This is the most heady of
Things I get to do today: "page" through the leaves of my own yard "catalog" and bask in the elegant rush of life on all sides--Spring.
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| A dance of Delphiniums |
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| Day Lilies |
Nice post and photos. I'm tingly all over.
ReplyDeleteSpring energy bathing your energy field. Bask and soak, love it in.
DeleteI took some pictures like this last weekend!
ReplyDeleteIt is so delicious to sit in the bliss of our own space and just soak up the glory of it all. I'm sure you'll share your pictures on Garden Tuesday soon, right? Hoping to see them.
Deleteit's been a mild winter in boston, but to date the only sprouting evidence i see are the crocus, perkily poking out of their winter coat of dried, brown Norway maple leaves. fun! maybe robbie and i should go look more closely -- who knows what might be hiding under the shroud of maple leaves?
Delete"Perkily Poking," that's a crocus for you! The Shroud of Turin is hardly more sacred than a this of the maple--only great beings are permitted to lie underneath.
DeleteThank you for the lovely signs of Spring!! It's greatly appreciated in my area! The spring snows have arrived, along with single digit temps for variety & thankfully, sun... Seriously, we've been fortunate to have a fairly mild winter for the far North... Looking sooo forward to Spring!!! Thanks again for the preview! Lisa
ReplyDeleteEveryday brings us closer to this shift. We just take what comes, right?
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