Spring Has Sprung!

I don't remember there being so many crocuses planted around the trailer! Maybe they grow especially enthusiastically after an especially wintry winter? :) They are beautiful! and I am beginning to believe that maybe, just maybe, the peas and beans I planted several weeks ago will actually sprout one of these days. Unfortunately for the highway department, the roads haven't survived the winter nearly as well as the crocuses. I took this picture this morning standing in the middle of the intersection where Clinton Street Extension (our future home address) breaks off from Clinton Street to head away from the village up the hill. The road looks positively hollow, yikes!

The rabbits are growing and still manage to entertain themselves quite well. This morning I couldn't find them in their hutch -- turns out they were making good use of the box they have collapsed, despite Mick's attempts to tape it solid. They chewed right through it! but seem to prefer the collapsed effect.

In the meantime we have been putting the remaining snow to good use! :)

(I think Mick likes the picturesqueness as much as the temperature effect.) :) To work up a thirst, Mick has been planting grass seed along the driveway with his handy-dandy grass spreader.

He covered the grass seed with wood pellets, to absorb moisture (on the right side of the driveway in the below picture). This picture also shows the stakes marking the apple orchard that will be planted next week! (on the left side of the driveway)

On Saturday (Mick's day off between two weeks of training at Fort Drum), Mick took out a lot of trees and is beginning to shape the pine grove (seen in the above picture) to be a private, enclosed sort of oasis in the middle of the pasture. I call the big tree in the middle the Party Tree.

We were also able to plant the 10 white firs that were my grandmother's Christmas gift to us -- thank you, Gram! The picture also shows a transplanted spruce behind and to the left of the fir. These trees will become part of the new and improved pine grove.

Spring has also brought along new clouds, the sort we haven't seen all winter! This one seemed strangely transparent, we had never seen anything like it before.

Someone else has been enjoying the clouds too (I took this picture for Aaron). :)

And finally, the food crops are beginning to grow! Several of the rhubarb plants are beginning to send up many shoots.

And there are leeks EVERYWHERE. We took the taps out of the maple trees on Saturday, but couldn't walk along the sugaring path without stepping on leeks, no matter how carefully we walked.

My, but we are looking forward to Spring! :)