In which we've passed False Spring and we're on to a Second Swing at Spring now

Here comes the sun!

Illustration created by my library storytime group this week

It has definitely been a long cold lonely winter.  

Jim and I used another "mental health day" this week to visit a plant nursery in Shoreline...

And it's definitely not summer yet--the rain pelting down yesterday was a reminder of that.

We met up with some Shoreline friends at a taco place while we were there!

But it's a warmer rain.  So that's good, right?  

That fog above our farm makes everything feel cold

The important thing is that we've passed the Equinox, and the days are getting longer.  

These young trees and the adjacent blueberry plants are waking up

I can now mess around in the garden before AND after work!  

Early-morning project:  deconstruct a "chicken bridge" and make it into 
a garden bench instead

Plants all around the farm are starting to grow.

Osoberry

Rhubarb

Strawberry

Lupins

Black current

Pear

I realized today that we will get to eat all the asparagus this year.  

Asparagus

Even when she got old and arthritic, Roo would sneak the spears straight out of the dirt before we got a chance to harvest them!  

Foxie is too short to reach, and Pooh Bear doesn't know that trick (yet).

Flowering ??? tree that Monica planted.

Plum tree

Forsythia

Catnip

dogwood?

One of the weekend's projects: covering the path with cardboard, 
then topping with a thick layer of hogsfuel

Inside the greenhouse, there are plenty of sprouts.

Cauliflower and broccoli, a few kinds of tomatoes, dwarf sunflowers in the tea canisters

Out in the woods, things are sprouting slowly.

I mostly know the ferns have new growth when Fee wants to snack the fresh young tips off.

The trees aren't showing much change yet, but the low-growing salal is throwing up new stems

This trail will be shaded in summer by leaves that haven't grown in yet

Back at the trailhead, Fee naps in the sunshine while I gossip with Kitty and Charlotte,
who are riding younger and faster horses.

But the Dragon always wakes up in time to beg for a cookie before we load up to go home.