Yes, Spring is Coming

[thecfarm]

Swampdonkey,you been pawing around in my freezer? Some chicken too.

[Alcranb]

 

 

Someone say turkey? The Toms have been shagging the hens something wicked the past few days. Spring can't far off.

[Chuck White]

We saw another sign of Spring here today!

We saw 2 turkey vultures circling over the back field this afternoon!

They don't usually arrive while the ground is still covered with snow!

[sawguy21]

Spring??? What is that?  Sumpin you southerners eat with yer _grits? If it don't warm up and quit raining here I'm gonna put pontoons on the trailer and get outta Dodge.

[Magicman]

Is it not obvious that those that avoid Grits are cold, and those that love them are ................ MMmmm, me thinks that there is a message somewhere.   

[thecfarm]

I will take the glaciered style of weather than face the end to my crusade.

[Magicman]

As long as your Heart is warm Ray, that is good enough for me.  Well, maybe not, but that is for another day.   ;D

[thecfarm]

 ;D

[Bert]

Update! I saw one of those yellow dandelion looking flowers today off the side of the skid road. Not sure what they are called, like dandelions ugly cousin. Anyhow, its a good sign!

[SwampDonkey]

coltsfoot, they push up through the snow. ;D

[Coon]

Spring can't be too far off here.... been seein a few of them nice corn fed and fattened up Canadian Geese.... mmm yummy but can't shoot em this time of year  :-\  That is the closest I ever come to eatin grits is spring goose.....

[gspren]

   Today for the first time this year I don't see any snow in the yard! Of course it's raining and getting muddy but no snow.

[thecfarm]

coltsfoot,Now I know what I dug up for the wife. I've never seen them push up through the snow,but where she has her wild garden is on the dry side too. We drive around and find flowers for her garden. Even has Shunk Cabage in there too. But as I said,the soil is on the dry side.

[SwampDonkey]

Ray, is it the real skunk cabbage or it the Indian helibore that everyone up here calls skunk cabbage? Skunk cabbage has a big yellow pistol with cabbage like leaves around it, bowl shaped. Here in NB we don't have real skunk cabbage, but they do in NS.

Colts foot is usually up quick after the snow goes, within a couple days. I've seen daffodils push up , but with tree leaves between it and the snow.

[thecfarm]

That will be it,Indian hellebore. I knew it as skunk cabbage because that is what my Father always called it. My Grandmother got some goats,My Father was not a goat lover. The goat got into some of that Indian hellebore. First thing that really comes up green and as my Father said,must of never been around it,because the goat ate it.My Father said the goat was leaning up against a post and had the pukes something awful.

[SwampDonkey]

Yes it's poisonous. However, real skunk cabbage the black bears eat in the spring. I used to live in Prince Rupert, BC and this time of year it was up and flowering with that big yellow pistol. They ate that part.

My uncle used to call hellebore that like your father. Couldn't tell'm nothing.  :D  ;)

[thecfarm]

I get a,You can't tell them nothing story. My Father had cancer. I went to pick him up at the hospital. Doctor said he was all set and the nurse said, I'll get a wheelchair. My Father got off the bed and said,I don't need no DanG wheelchair,nice and loud and headed for the door. The nurse looked at me said,He can't do that!!!. I looked at her and said,You tell him that,I have to catch up to him.  ;D  Out the door we went. He was still sputtering when I caught up to him.  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

On the subject of spring, we don't have none. It will probably turn in the 60's when it does warm up and never cool down again until September. Winter to Summer, no other seasons up here. ;D

[Billbob]

I am so excited that spring is here! 8)  Since everyone is showing pictures of their flower gardens I thought I should show mine.  So I just stepped out on the back steps to take a picture of the flower garden by the old barn.  I should break out the rototiller.  But first I have to find the fly dope.  Darn black flies!  They are sure thick today!



 

[gspren]

   Today for the first time this year I don't see any snow in the yard! Of course it's raining and getting muddy but no snow.

  This morning when I posted that it was true  ;D then this afternoon it turned cold and changed to snow and now the ground is white again.  >:( Where is spring?

[Coon]

-15Cand snow here today.... at this rate we will be ice fishing in August.... :D

[Wellmud]

Showed my wife your flowers to ease her winter depression, they are pretty ;)

[Magicman]

Yes, Spring will happen, and with it new life.  I watched the Beech tree outside of my window go from tiny little twists, to full pale green leaves this past week.  The (decorative) Red Maples now have inch long leaves which has happened in just a couple of days.  Maybe I need to take another picture.   ;D

[petefrom bearswamp]

cut some firewood trees saturday with my son.
Snow still knee deep in places in my woods.
Travel 5 or 6 miles south of me and the ground is bare.

[Bert]

The (decorative) Red Maples now have inch long leaves which has happened in just a couple of days.  Maybe I need to take another picture.   ;D

Now your torturing me. I was outside twisting off the little gray "buds" on the hickory trees next to my house to see if there were any leaves inside. Nothing!