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Friday's Feat - Banish the Snow!

And the snow is just about gone from the perennial garden. Yeah!

The pond is going to be visible any day now.

One day lily near a wall is showing green. Don't let the deer see that. They are so hungry they visit the bird feeder to eat sunflower seeds.

All the raised beds are clear of snow and ...

the lettuce and spinach from the fall wintered over and will be growing very soon.

Is it too much to hope that we will have an early spring?

70º Thursday Thumbs its Nose at Winter

Winter's Grasp on Wednesday is Waning

Winter's Grasp on Tuesday

Winter's Grasp on Monday

Compare it to Sunday below.

Will Winter Ever Release Her Grasp?

This week our temperatures are to be above normal - into the 60ºs by week's end. My perennial and pond gardens are still firmly in winter's grasp as of today. I am going to track the disappearance of the snow each day so that hopefully by Friday the gardens will be revealed and ready for spring. Well, I can hope, can't I?

This and That

The birds were busy at the feeders all day yesterday. They'd heard the weather report of the snowstorm coming.

I have two of these barrel squirrel proof feeders now and for some reason this one, the newest and in a new location is more popular than the old one. Is it because of its newness?

My camera does not have the best telephoto capabilities but here is the male cardinal as close as I could get to him.

This morning we woke to 3 inches of snow. It's a lovely sight. Here's sunrise through the trees overlooking the frozen pond.


Finally, I decided it was time for a color change. I've been wanting borders around my photos and to do that I went to a new template and while I was at it went to a new color scheme.

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