It's here! Winter is over! Well, at least according to the calendar. The Spring Equinox has arrived. Daylight and darkness are in balance.
I know that some of you are still stuck in winter, and some of you never really lose summer, but here in the coastal Pacific Northwest, Spring comes early, slowly, and gloriously. Since I am mostly home bound, that's what I've got to share if I want a happy post, and I do.
Wow! I just checked the weather station and it's 64 degrees in this late afternoon on the last day of winter. I just came in from sitting in the sun for a while, which I try to do a bit each day. Self-isolating doesn't mean you can't go outside. And besides, each day I need to check to see what's blooming and what's pushing up out of the soil.
Daffodils
Corydalis
Forsythia
Red flowering current (native)
Epimedium
Cyclamen
Crocus
Chionodoxa
Oregon Grape (native)
And that wonderful spring beauty, Trillium, known of old as Wake Robin. The robins were singing as I took a short stroll in the neighborhood last evening. Cheer up, cheer up!
Then there are the emerging:
Lily of the valley
Lysimachia
May Apple
Hosta
Ariseama - Jack in the pulpit
Bleeding heart
So much promise in the emerging.
Spring has come to the kitchen table too, with my new table topper and grocery store flowers. I don't want to pick my own.
I hope the Equinox brings all of you some sense of balance in these troubling times. Celebrate Spring!
Delicate beauty and a sign of awakening -- may it transfer from the plants to human decency that has been dormant a bit too long.
ReplyDeleteYou really have your own garden to bring you pleasure (and us too thank you very much) but also to give you time in the sunshine with exercise. The perfect pandemic answer.
ReplyDeleteI am always surprised at how much earlier your plants bloom than ours do, just a mere hundred miles north. Beautiful! :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, so lovely! Thank you for sharing your spring. We'll be awhile yet here but I know it is coming.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love to see the young plants just starting their growth.
ReplyDeleteamazing all the blooms emerging...it's raining here today-amazing but then it is spring!
ReplyDeleteYou have spring busting out all over! Happy Spring!
ReplyDeleteIt's sure looking like spring there. You have so many pretty spring flowers. We have lots of pollen in the air today. We are staying close to home these days too. Of course, being the homebodies that we are, I can't tell much difference.
ReplyDeleteThank you for such an uplifting post!
ReplyDeleteLove your flowers and the cheery table topper. When I see what you have blooming I know what I'll have in a month or so. It's good to know that we're all coping as best we can with the current threat. I'm so very thankful for sunshine which makes everything more bearable.
ReplyDeleteAwesome number of flowers in bloom for spring. The first thing I'll see are blue bells
ReplyDeleteThe picture with the Primroses is so pretty with all that color. It looks like you were out in the garden with a paint brush and a box of watercolors painting up all the bright colors. It is so exciting seeing everything popping up in the garden. It is doing it here too. The weather has turned back to cold here. Brrrrrr
ReplyDeleteI always loved seeing crocus and daffodils in spring because they made me know spring had sprung! Yay for warmer weather for you all.
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