What a spring! Officially spring is just around the corner, but it pretended to start way back in February or was it January? Now that it is mid-March, I gave in to my spring fever bug and today I planted lettuce, broccoli, radishes, spinach and onion sets. Well…… confession time, I did “try an experiment” and planted some lettuce and radishes back during those 80 degree days in February just to see if they would make it. The radishes never came up and the lettuce only sparsely. The Red Sails lettuce slips look good but I have had them covered with milk jugs.
With the frigid teen temperatures we had this week, I am watching to see what will happen to the trees, bushes and flowers that have burst into bud. March is one of my favorite months. Maybe, because it is my birthday month, or it could be because new life is bursting at the seams. Surely it is a relief to wave good-bye to the blustery, wintery cold, and just maybe, it is that burst of new energy and joyous anticipation of summer fun and activities. There is one thing I do NOT like about March. MARCH WINDS! Maybe it would be better to say I have a very strong dislike for March winds and all the millions of twigs I have to pick up from my birch trees. It is amazing that the trees are not limbless by now!
In the spring everything is a picture; every blossom, sunset, billowery cloud, bird, baby calf, rain storm, snow squalls, etc. I am posting below some pictures I have taken in February and March.
Morning sunrise from my kitchen window.
Sunday afternoon fun.
Coyotes crossing the pasture in the middle of the day!
One of my mother’s beautiful African Violets
Repair job on the farm
March ice storm.
Ice on the tree tops and trees pushing bud.
This evening…..a rain shower this evening put water droplets on the sunporch window screen.
The sky was dark and stormy and the sun was brilliant as it dropped below the clouds.
The sky was so dark and stormy and the setting sun cast a warm, yellow glow over the homestead.
The cows contently grazing in the pasture.
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