At home, about 8am Saturday, 9 April 2011, after a cold, drizzy night at the end of a week with both warm and cool days, some strong wind, and at least one brief spell of heavy rain. (Through the winter, we have to surround these trees with 5′ wire fencing to save their large, fuzzy buds from the deer.)
Below, a few shots of the same from Monday afternoon this week.
Here’s a reference to Gardening-Guy.com, on what looks like the same plant.
After four inches of rain in as many days, today we see our first daffodil blooms — tiny daffodils of the kind the cancer society used to sell us each spring. Only about 3″ tall — compare to the size of the acorn nearby.
Our heather, in bloom for about a week now — under an oak canopy as specified by Wikipedia.
. . . but the pond’s still frozen after several weeks.
… so we stayed inside.
Clearing our driveway 27 January. We had 3½” but much of the rest of the east coast got much more. Erin had a foot packed against her door in Philadelphia.
on the Cherokee Princess Dogwood by the porch
about eight minutes before sunrise.
I’m lichen it.
Did you hear the NPR Science Friday piece on lichens a few weeks ago?
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