Spring is Just Around the Corner
 

(taken wednesday 14-MAR-04)

At least only the leaves on the tulips will be brown and crusty...I don't see any buds, yet.

I took this last April. Plant and flowers did fine with no after effects.

Assuming I don't get distracted by a shiny object, I will try to remember to take pics later in the tulips' development.

You know, you can purchase firearms in a more matte finish, or even black. They don't *all* have to be chromed. :D

In my case that would be "they don't all have to be black ..."

No snow here ( in Arkansas ) , i don't have any tulip pics yet , but the dafadils are comeing out Beautamusly !!!!!!

And the garden is tilled , covered in plastic , soaker hose in place , and set to JET !!!

Hmmm...doesn't look like ya'll are that far ahead of us up here in KC, Spring-wise. We've got the bulb flowers blooming, flowering trees popping off, and grass greening up as well.

I was in Hot Springs about two years ago around the end of February, and it was already Spring there...probably three weeks ahead of the situation here at home. It was cool.

This is the 30 days that make the Shannenoda Valley (which I can never spell right) so pretty. I-route 81 is suppose to be a perfect example of spring.

re: spring is just around the corner
 

*from the Weather Channel website*

33°F Fair
Feels Like
22°F

must be an awfully big corner...here's hoping that the corner is turned soon!:D

ok time for a close up of one of the iris in the front yard ,
And Yes i am still trying to figuer out the exact foto distance on the macro setting of my digicam

It's sticking its tongue out.:p

Ah, lovely iris!
Finally Here in the frozen north, I have green, pointy noses poking up and some tiny blooming snow drops. Still down in the 20s at night. My tulips are usually rabbit food before they can bloom. I do have pink buds on my hepatica, a wierd woodland flower - always among the first to bloom even before the leaves green up. I may try to get some pics, but I suck. :)

pink buds on my hepatica
 

You may want to see a Dr. about that. ;-)

I'm in Warch's neck of the woods, and we have a chance for snow this weekend.

Ha! Snow is ok- we need some moisture...its too dry. The thirsty buds can handle 20 deg and slushy snow.

I am so excited! In an very springlike burst of initiative, I just hired a great woodworking/construction guy, Ed, to build us a back stair/deck and remove our old woodstove chimney! The project wheels are in motion...Anyone want to buy a fine Yugoslovian made Amity cast iron wood stove/chimney? (you need to pick the sucker up!) ;)

I'm having that problem too. the flower will be blurry but the background is sharp. just a little more practice......

ok, i'm not going to the farm this weekend so these pics of the Easter Lillies will have to do:cool:

and a close up....

Nice shots, plthijinx.
Use it for a Fireweed planter in the yard.;)

I noticed earlier this week that the blooming was about to happen, so I started to carry my camera again ...

remember those poor little leaves, poking up through the snow? They seem to have made it okay ...

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And they have a friendly daffodil keeping them company

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Are these the same plants/beds as the first picture in the snow?

Yes, they are.

They are not grown in ideal conditions. This patch only gets about an hour of sun each day.

The flower bed is an area which is part of the front porch. Basically it's a cinderblock extension off the porch that has been filled in with dirt. Who knows what is actually IN there. There's an excelllent chance that it was added to hide a body back in the 1930s.

The dirt, over the years, has been spit in, puked, in and I wouldn't be surprised to learn, pissed in. It also serves as a supplementary ashtray for the uncouth (there are perfectly good wall mounted ashtrays on either side of the door as well as one of those goofy "Smoker's Outpost" devices, however, the flower bed must be that much more inviting. I have actually very rarely seen patients throw cigarettes in the garden. Mostly it's staff).

It's a favorite hiding spot for drugs and paraphenalia, so when new flowers get planted, we usually have a boutiful harvest of crack stems.

The flowers are carefully chosen by the "whatever's on sale" method. They get planted randomly, and not attended to during the growing season. it's very low maintenance. Once or twice a year someone who is working a slow midnight actually "tends" the garden, trimming stuff back, and adding new seeds, bulbs, and sometimes things like impatiens and pansies. A lot depends on what's available at the State Hospital Flower Sale.

We also have a couple of Hostas, and a butterfly bush. I'm interested in seeing what happens to the remains of last year's mums ... will they come back or won't they?

The cherry trees are blooming, and we got ourselves a garden today.

If they were originally field grown, they should.:)

Jinx, those back steps would give your Insurance company, cardiac arrest.:haha:

:D
They're not so bad...

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Oh yeah, I've lived in three houses with those twisted back stairs. Don't, I repeat DO NOT, try to go down them fast, in your socks, carrying 2 cats. Or drunk.:haha:

We got baby 'maters !!!!!

And baby squish !!!

Cool. I've been a vegetable myself, at times.