Spring is Here?

I went out to my mail box today and found that my crocuses

have started to bloom.

 First I had to clear some of last year's debris 

before I could get some pictures, though.

 This points out an important lesson that we learned

during our trip to Hobbit Gardens on Saturday:

you can't know what is going on in your gardens 

unless you are out walking in or tending to your gardens every day.

 I brushed the leaves off the purple crocuses.

An hour or so later, 

they opened their blooms.

I even saw my first robins of the year

while out on my walk around the neighborhood today.

Odd how much later I notice the robins here than in Ohio.

I would almost always see the robins return in late January

in Southeastern Ohio.

 

Happy March 1st!