Unfortunately, the yard is also turning green, so once again I guess I'll just have to accept the fact that all the grass survived. *sigh*

LOL! I know the feeling. This week's photo shows the same thing. I didn't notice just how green the grass was in the perennial bed path until I came back inside.

Now all the robins have moved North. They're loving the rain we're getting now. It softens up the dirt letting them pick the worms and grubs out. As long as they're eating future Japanese Beetles, I have no problems with them. I just wish they'd leave the earthworms alone.

Token, you should plant some Brussels sprouts. haha


Another sign of spring here: baby cows and horses. Saw a bunch yesterday. And yes, the robins are having a field day in the heaved-up garden areas. I figure if the worms are dumb enough to poke their heads out, they deserve to be a birdie breakfast.

Signs are appreciated, for sure. I still hold my breath. We've had too many April snow storms that shut down various cities in Upstate NY in the past for me to feel safe! :-)
But I am so glad for:
the longer days, the sunshine, the sound of geese, signs of perennials coming back, and new sprouts!!

Linda

Posted by lblack61: But I am so glad for:
the longer days, the sunshine, the sound of geese, signs of perennials coming back, and new sprouts!!

I am also welcoming the sounds of geese... so is Spot the Wonderdog! She has 95% of them trained to stay by the pond, by the middle of summer the newbies will be fully trained and Spot will be fit and trim again! She sure makes walking in the courtyard easier (and cleaner)! Such a good girl!

I see spring too, some of my perenials are sprouting in my beds and the tulips are poking out of the ground.

I too cross my fingers we do not have any more snow or frost. I want my containers to make it.

Karen

Good grief Karen! You are going to be so amazed at everything by the end of next month. Your containers will do just fine. I promise you that you'll have flowers in your beds this year. If yours don't make it, we'll meet half way and you can have some of mine! Forget that, you can have some of mine even if yours do make it! Now stop worrying!

lol, Nancy you are so nice....

I am just a worrier.

I now have 110 containers. I am less worried cause I have so many some are bound to make it ;)

I had one tomato container that was dry on top, I sowed some extra seeds on top after re-wetting it so it should sprout as well.

thanks for telling me not to worry!!

Karen

Sign of Spring? Crazy garden lady buys 22 "Homer buckets" because the price dropped to $2.78 at HD. WSn Tomatoes, you WILL live this year!
(my DH will wonder why I'm growing the toms in buckets this year...it's not like we have a lack of space. I guess I just want to try it fran's way instead of putting them in the garden.)
I just put my day's activity on another thread, so I won't regurgitate it here, but suffice it to say, it was a PERFECT gardening day! Just enough snow melted to get a ton of stuff done in a couple beds so I don't feel overwhelmed by the workload.
And purple Koolaid.

I just sat down on the couch because I can hardly stand straight from my sore back. But I'm not complaining! I found out the ground is thawed enough to pound in stakes for my rabbit/dog fence. Got the entire thing up and still felt fine. So, I hauled and spread about 24 bags of leaves on a new bed I'm making along the road in front of my house. I also swept the old leaves off my deck and checked for sprouts (none yet). But, I did find the first daffodil/tulip spikes poking through! I'd expect dafs first, but these sure look like tulips. Ah, spring really is here!

Martha

This morning it was in the 30s. Now it's 50. I feel colder now than I did this morning.

I know better than to think winter is over in my neck of the woods, but today it sure felt like it. Checked my jugs,no sprouts! Was great to get outside and play in the garden without wearing long johns;o) Checked my jugs, no sprouts!! Cleaned up the seed stalks I left for the birds over winter and did some pruning. Checked my jugs, NO sprouts!!! Caught hubby with his nose in the jugs also, "NO sprouts!!!!", he says. OH bother. Maybe tomorrow.

Blessings,
Dea

Weather today was phenomenal, around 65F. So what are those that I heard while I was working on my garden bed? Maybe, they were at 200ft-300Ft above ground? It's got wide wing spans, about 90% of their body is color white but both edges of wings are color black.

Anyways, tomorrow is 63F high and on Tuesday, it's 72F, woohoo!!!

Hopefully, even if it snows in April, it will melt quickly! :D

The weather today was indeed wonderful. There have been a lot of sandhill cranes coming through for the past week or so. On this webpage they have an audio clip of their distinctive sound. Sometimes they are so high you can't really see them but you can hear them.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Sandhill_Crane.html

That means, what I really saw were cranes. They look like exactly like this :D

Like what I said above, black on both edge of their wings. ;)

{{gwi:364787}}

Here is a link that might be useful: Sandhill Crane

We had heavy frost this morning.
Was a very nice day out yesterday, but I was Spring housecleaning, the established perennials aren't showing enough for me to rake the beds, don't want to rip out my last years Ws'd babies

My snow crocus have been blooming and now the regular ones are starting too. The daff's look ready to bloom sometime in the next week, and I saw a calf that couldn't have been more than a week old yesterday. Wow spring is coming.

winter aconite blooming their yellow hearts out and daffs are getting buds plump, so are early tulips, I have those early kaufmaniana/ greigii and fosteriana type that shows bud first and then leaves.
Soil is still frozen some on north side of the the house but columbines show their leaves and pulmonarias rosettes and first flowers are opening on primroses.
oh yeah, and buds are plump on clems, I pruned some yesterday...

While working yesterday I saw 2 road commissioners out grading, and then later, in another township, one was tootling along with a load of gravel (be still my heart).

And the ground's finally unfrozen enough that I was able to yank out the decrepit old garden fork from where I left it last year.

There's a bunch of sprouts popping up in 2 unmarked jugs - not quite sure what happened there and am hoping I actually stuck some seeds in them and the sprouts aren't weeds.