After coming home from church on Sunday, I was hovering over my poor amaryllis plants, lamenting over how straggly they look and wondering if quite possibly there would be any blooms. The winter storm of 2021 and the record wind chill temperatures during Christmas week 2022 wreaked havoc with the amaryllis even though they were … Continue reading The First Bud 2023
Category: Spring
And suddenly – it’s spring
A sure sign of spring is the blooms of Mountain Laurel on the scrappy little tree in my front yard. After a month or so of grey, drizzzly days this morning the sun rose in a cloudless sky. What a welcome relief just to have a sunny day. The temperature rose up into the … Continue reading And suddenly – it’s spring