Tinges of Green . . .

We are seeing tinges of green here and there, mostly the Willow trees.  But it is a harbinger of Spring.  Lots of wind, gusty but as yet still cool.  We were to get snow flurries but that did not occur, not cool enough and no moister to speak of.  Alas, no snow, nothing but a few pesky rain drops, not even enough to put a rain coat on for.

We can see the ends of the Oak tree limbs thickening with buds.  Soon there will be yellow from the blooms all over the place.  It really does a job on my black SUV.  But then so does anything, dirty rain, snow or even bud residue.  And the birds like the SUV too.

No Robins yet.  But they are sort of hit and miss.  Some years we have great flocks of them and some years a very few show up.  The Cedar Wax Wings have been through and pick the Pyrocantha's clean of their fruit, the red berrys.

Off to New Roads this weekend for the annual Morrison Family farm business meeting and get together.  It will be good to see the family and down there Spring comes sooner than here.  So it may be blossoming out there with Japanese Magnolias and other early bloomers.  Maybe the Forsythia with its yellow flowers will be out in force.  We have Daffodils up here and blooming and I am sure there will be plenty of them out.  I even saw a Iris in bloom the other day.  So it will be good to see False River again.

The eternal cycle is starting again.  Spring, the hot summer and then fall and the dead of winter again.  I could hear the Mourning Doves calling this morning.  At first I thought it might be a flight of ducks or geese but no, it was the Doves.