The wind’s a-flurry and the TV meteorologists are showing maps with electric green and yellow and orange, and there’s talk of hail north and west of us. Hopefully, it’ll stay in someone else’s back yard, and not shred our azaleas—which are abloom in round two for this summer.

Morning of April third. See how the rainbow is aligned with the garden?

This is the first sunshine I saw after The Botanist died. A part of me wonders if this is a communication from the gardener at the Great Garden Elsewhere….

The promised frost did hit our piece of the planet earth in the wee hours, and I’ll be having translucent asparagus with lunch, since I didn’t get them picked yesterday. The color was just gorgeous as the sun shone through the stem. Little guys, like the one on the right, and pencil-thin specimens, like the one on the left, made it through okay.

We are warned to expect frost tonight. Blossoms are rather susceptible; we’ll see how this peach fares—although the Botanist says the peaches this tree produces aren’t worth it.

I’m sorry; gotta go. I see the asparagus patch needs picking again….

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!”?

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?

Yesterday’s late-day shot, it turns out, was of a storm a-brewing (10-mile tornado swath through Dexter, details here), and this morning we’re enrobed in fog.

UPDATE: twenty minutes later, the fog is thicker…. SECOND UPDATE: forty minutes later—even thicker!, but more light.

The sky doesn’t match, right at the moment. This cloud pattern is opposite the descending sun, and lit by it. The sun is slightly obscured by clouds, but bright enough. To the south it is homogenous grey and almost storm-like. To the north it is bright.

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….

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.