Signs of Spring

We found signs of our (late) Spring, this weekend.  Guess we should have expected a late Spring since Easter is so late.  Year after year, I find that Spring comes along about the same time as Easter --  you would think I would learn to be patient and wait for Easter. 

It was sloppy, rainy and damp in No Mo this weekend.  The Missouri clay is slick and oozing water.  We have boards on the ground to walk on outside, cardboard on the porches and rugs at the doors and we still track mud into both cabins.  Jeans, sweatshirts, socks and all . . . muddy!

But between the rains and in spite of the cool days and cooler nights, we found signs of spring. 

Mayapples.

These grow in the timber.  We had a big patch at III so these remind me of good times in the timber.  I planted just a tiny clump a bunch of years ago.  Look at them now!   I love the way the little delicate white violets bloom under the protective cover of the Mayapples umbrellas . . . and the yellow (wall flower) dandilions are being brave and inching in closer to the beautiful damsels, the Mayapples! 

There is a little dwarf apple tree sits up the hill by the "big shed".  It is in lovely bloom right now.  We should research when and how to spray it here in a week or two so that we would have a lovely crop of apples on it, late summer.  But we never get it sprayed and then we end up with 3 or 5 apples . . . we have got to learn to be more responsible farmers! 

These creatures are in our garden box on the bank.  I planted them last visit down and they are starting to take off; to grow.  These are onions plants . . . and it won't be long until we will be able to pull these and use them to enhance our scrambled eggs or our lettuce salad.  Can't wait!

We have 3 or 4 lilacs bushes at Too.  A couple of them took a beating last spring or fall as about half of the bush is dead.  There are lilac blooms developing on three of the shrubs tho and the next couple of weeks should be really pretty at the cabin. 

I really like this photo of the new little Buckeye Tree . . . with the short yellow dandilion staring up at it, admiringly.  I really would love to have a nice Buckeye at Too where children (and Nana) could pick up Buckeyes for good luck.  Wish me luck that this one grows! 

This is a Redbud and it was the week of the Redbud in Mo.  These trees are gorgeous!  The magnolia trees were waning and the flowering crabs just coming on but the Redbuds were at the heighth of their glory. 

The Bradford Pears took second place this weekend -- just behind the Redbuds.  The "pears" have such a distinctive shape and are so WHITE in relationship to anything else around.  They just plain catch your eye. 

This little gal was inspecting out of the Big Cabin's second floor windows.  She was looking for signs that the ground was drying up and the grass coming up under the swinging tree. 

She didn't find it. 

Hopefully that will happen soon.  In May.

Audri and her Mama bopped down for supper Saturday evening.  PaPa and Nana enjoyed their company.