The purple crocuses are still blooming. They last a long time although they are not open the whole day depending on the daylight. The yellow primrose are the only other flowers blooming. For the second year in a row they made it through the whole winter. I checked on our daffodils. They are not blooming yet. Other flowers are coming up like the hyacinth and tulip and I am sure there will be others. It is exciting to walk around our land and see what is coming next. I once had a teacher who had lived in Hawaii and did not understand what spring meant to others until she moved here. Spring is always an reawakening of the earth here.
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It was the second day of spring but it felt like winter. I checked the car thermometer and it registered 27 degrees. Brr! Nevertheless the daffodils are still coming up as well as other flowers like the lilies and tulips. Maybe in two weeks it will act as spring. I checked the ten day forecast and the temperatures each day were still low.
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It was still white the view outside our kitchen window. I discovered yesterday that it did not snow in the adjoining county–just here. Our woods were still covered with snow although not all the land belonged to us. I do like looking at the white colored trees and ground. In three days spring will be here. It certainly does not feel that way. The forecast for tomorrow is snow and ice–the high for the day will be thirty two degrees. It is actually forecast to be warmer the next night than during the day–by two degrees. Meanwhile the daffodils continue to get taller awaiting the warmer weather as well as other plants like the tulips and lilies.
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It was six-twenty PM and still light. This Sunday is daylight saving time and the clock gets moved forward an hour so it will be lighter longer. There is no more the gloom of winter time when it got dark much earlier. We are even having days in the fifties. Everything will start to turn green. Soon the daffodils will bloom as well as the tulips and crocuses. Again for the second straight year the winter did not kill the primrose. We had no extended freezes. Now spring officially is less than two weeks away.
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The tulips in the garden were still closed. I noted the time: it was 10:30AM. I guess when the day progresses the tulips will open and at the end of the day close, again. That is a big mystery why they do that but they do.
Our garden has never had so many flowers in it. Pansies are all over. The daffodils are still blooming and there are different varieties which make it fun to look at. These get less sun so they took longer to bloom. Others had finished their bloom weeks ago.
The row of tulips planted last year all came up. There are at least three different varieties among them: pink, yellow and pink ones with yellow on them.
My wife has planted some seeds and we are still waiting for them to come up. It is a mystery to me what causes seeds to germinate. I help her a little more now for she has a bad back. The five different colored primrose are still abloom. It is still cool. Every morning I walk around the garden to see what is coming up next. There are always surprises.
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Flowers are here today and gone tomorrow. I was watching the tulips come up for a few weeks. The row of tulips were planted last year. Yesterday some of them opened and one was already past the peak. Maybe, that is why we love flowers so much. Their beauty only lasts a short time. Other daffodils are opening now. They did not get as much sun as the others. I want to go out and examine and view them more carefully. They are all different. Isn’t that something? God made each plant like a snowflake–no two exactly alike. And if I pass too quickly I miss their uniqueness. I have to slow down. Maybe, that is what natures forces us to do–slow down and notice what is before us for it will disappear in a blink of an eye.
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The red tulips have finally opened–several in fact. And in another spot I was not paying much attention to a few more opened also red. And another yellow daffodil with a specially frilled center was almost open. Every day there are different surprises. I noticed green berries on one holly tree. The other tree is the one that gets the red berries. It was spring time and everything was awakening. And it was fun walking around the garden to see the next discovery you can make.
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The Canada geese are coming back. I heard honking and looked up at the sky. The geese were flying in a V shaped pattern with the left side considerably shorter. There must have been at least seventy geese in the flock. They were heading for Lake Huron–a small acre sized body of water. They are an harbinger of spring. Earlier we noted the row of tulips were coming up. It will be a surprise what colors they are. No one seems to remember what the package indicated. More and more greenery is coming up. There are surprises every day.
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The only thing I saw on the River was the ubiquitous gull. I crossed the busy highway to take a closer view of the River but that was all I saw. With a little luck I thought I might spot one of the bald eagles who nest on the opposite mountain. Not this time. I keep looking for them but I never have seen them in the vicinity.
Later on I might occasionally spot a snowy or great egret on the fringes of the nearby islands. It is still too early in the season for that. I just wanted to view the expanse of the River. There were many gulls but that was about it. They could be found here year around.
Later on I will walk around my land and see what plants are starting to come out of the ground. The daffodils, of course, are five or six inches tall. I am wondering whether any of the row of tulips planted last year will come up. There are always surprises. Spring is now three weeks and some days away. We will see what comes up.
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