Musings

On the 16th, just nine days ago (if my math is right), the greenery on this lilac were little leaf-nubbins. Today, the bloom-spikes are ready to roll!

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Rainy day, yet the blooms still glimmer, even at dusk.

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Can it still be March? Calendar says yes. Trees say: pay attention to the jet stream, weather.

I say, I’m on the threshold of being here a month, and I do not think today’s events brought me closer to exiting. Cross your fingers that blood transfusions and antibiotics turn things around quickly (I am).

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Yes, in Michigan. In March. The earliest spears….

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Just two days ago, I saw this fine asparagi (probably not the correct fake-Latin ending) crowning. And look at it now!

And here’s the kicker: I found another specimen that’s about an inch taller.

Good eating awaits!

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In an effort to reduce my ignorance a teensy bit, I checked the Wisdom of WikiPee on forsythia…and learned that the petals “become pendant in rainy weather thus shielding the reproductive parts“—just as you see in this picture taken during a light sprinkle.

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Raspberry cane sporting an…accoutrement.

Did more raspberry cane removal. Not quite finished because I switched to the asparagus bed. Did find a this-year’s-asparagus crowning the soil.

Can you say “spring!”?

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Just four days ago, on the 12th, I posted a photo of the lilac, with dry, winter branches. Just look at them now!

And the caption: “Season’s turning: mostly not yet”—I’m into irony?? Is it really MARCH? In MICHIGAN?

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Both thermometers reported that temps topped 80°F today; something’s not right (this is MARCH)! I found it just too hot to finish the raspberries…(lazy me).

So glad there’re leftovers in the fridge….

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Lilacs in winter mode.

We basked in the sun again! Lilacs are early-bloomers, but there’s no sense of that today, even though the grass is greening and I saw a yard-full of delicate snowdrops on Saturday.

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