Early Spring Growth

Nature, she's with us always
acknowledging our existence
even when we disregard her world
holding a love only a mother can
for her stumbling offspring

Spring is stirring in the garden and winter's sleep is coming to an end. The birds have been singing wildly all around the neighborhood. Yesterday they added a jazzy melody to the background sounds of rain and thunder we enjoyed. Lightning adds nitrogen to the garden and is a welcome spring tonic to get things started. The snows are nearly gone and the earth is throwing off the deep frost, the garden will be workable soon and some very early greens and cool hardy vegetable seeds, bulbs and tubers can be planted in the garden in the next 2 or 3 weeks! Surprising things happen quite fast when spring arrives!

Tiny spring plants are emerging and promising blooms and fragrances yet to come. Early Spring can be an encouraging time of year!Yesterday temperatures soared well into double digits. Today it's predicted to be just slightly cooler. It's currently -2 C (about 30 F) and might reach 7 C later, it's expected to stay warm over the next 7 days, even above freezing in the overnight hours except for Sunday (-1 C predicted). Winds are out of the West at 4 km/hr humidity is 100% but it's not raining, pressure is at 102.17 kPa. It'll stay mainly sunny until this evening then light showers will roll into the area overnight.

Will have to fill the bird feeders again this weekend - the birds are feeding heavily and there are more of them around it seems! If their music is any indication - there are many in the area!

Click; Our Enchanted Garden to visit our Web-zine site! It's growing regularly!

(posted using a link from my free Google Picasa2 album...)

Thanks To Blogger For The Heads Up!

A BIG Thanks to Blogger and their Blog - for the heads up about Picasa Web Albums! It's relatively easy to use and once I figure out how to make use of their linking tools I'm certain it will be a useful feature for this photo blog. As a Flickr user I was fairly happy with most of their features but the photos often didn't fit here properly and now that I've reduced the size of my Flickr account I don't have as easy a time using images from there unless they are very current. Something I'm not thrilled with but will have to cope with for at least another month until I can get things set back to a less restricted account. With Picasa2 and their "Web Albums" things are much easier to access and organize! It's already been helpful for finding a photo of me with my camera, plus a shot of an early spring sunrise to add to the sidebar in celebration of the equinox for fellow Bloggers! I'll keep experimenting with it. I hope to get some interesting Spring photographs today to add to the collection!