We look for signs of spring where we can, and, after a winter unlike any other, the chairs are finally emerging from their solid encasement of snow. Enjoy these lengthening days, dear friends.
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Hooray! My wheelbarrow has finally appeared, too!
Thanks for that image, made me smile…
I’m sitting here chuckling as the snow lightly falls and the pellet stove roars. I went out to check on my blueberry bushes because of the deer and wondered how I was going to get there with the several feet of snow still on the ground. Easy – I walked right on top of it. :-)
Crazy, I know, the only response is to laugh and remind ourselves that this is normal for New England! With this fresh dusting, at least the dirty snowbanks aren’t looking quite so unsightly… ;-)
Doesn’t look like you got your peas in on St. Patrick’s Day. I lost my blueberry bushes in the heat wave we had last week in coastal Southern California. Another heat wave is coming next weekend, temps headed toward the nineties. :-(
Am flying out to SoCal this weekend and going from 30 degree weather to that in the 80s — a conundrum on what to pack when we’re still donning winter coats here…
I love your snow measuring tool. It will be spring soon and you’ll be able to sit in one of those chairs soon – well, in a month or so. Happy Spring!
Though the occasional bare patch is finally emerging, the snow around the chairs doesn’t seem to be budging…
Hi! Long time….i just can’t seem to get back to my blog, but still gardening, of course. So much easier to snap a shot and post of Facebook! Came for a visit to one of my favorite gardening blogs. Hope you get relief from the snow and cold soon. I am not liking the weather this past winter here in MD and I just want 50-60 degree days so I can get some seeds in the ground. Started tomatoes, peppers and a few eggplant inside about a week and a half ago. Look forward to seeing your blogs this spring. Perhaps I will post one or two this season! LOL.—-Amber (fellow radicchio grower)
Hi there and thanks for dropping by! Planting time still seems a long way off here…
I think you have more snow than we have in New Hampshire. It’s all quite amazing to me. What happens to the crocus under all that snow? I planted so many corms in the fall and they are beneath 2 feet of snow.
… I know, the storms seemed to make it a habit of stalling once they hit this spot on the coast …
Glad to see the chairs survived another winter. I hope springs will be lovely. (And if more snow threatens you, send it westward to fall on the Sierra: we need it)