Spring!

 It's the most wonderful time of the year!  I know that song makes you think of Christmas, but I think Spring is the most wonderful time of the year.  Seeing the green pop out, blue skies, warm breezes, sunshine and flowers is just so wonderful and makes me happy.  (Not to mention, clear roads to drive on...)   :)  

Spring has been slow to arrive this year.  It's been unusually cold and rainy, but this coming week is supposed to be very nice and it's really looking like Spring here.

Here's some pics so you can see what it looks like in my little corner.

It's getting greener on my drive to work.  This is a field of onions.

The bunnies have been hopping all over outside our windows at work. 

In the front yard, the daffodils Bob planted last year have come up!

In the back yard, our flowering dogwood is full of blooms and the forsythia is such a pretty pop of yellow.

Our maple tree is the back yard will soon have leaves.  The little things hanging down are "helicopter" seed pods which will be floating all over the yard before too long.

I'm not sure what this is, but it's a bulb Bob planted quite a few years ago, and every year we get these dainty little flowers in the Spring.

These are Grecian wind flowers.  They are tiny little things that naturalize, and we get more every year.  The color is so brilliant!

Here's what they look like, on the edge of the yard.  When they are done blooming the whole plant just fades away.

Forsythia blooms

We have lots of shade in our yard, and hosta plants love shade, so there are lots of them around.  It's fun to see them pop up, almost looking like a tube, and then see the leaves open up.

One of my favorite things is seeing the trees around me get that tint of green, and within a week it seems all the leaves are open.  We're at that point now, and things will look very different in a week.

Here's some trees by our house.  Aren't those new leaves pretty?

Last is our weeping crab tree.  More pretty little flowers!

"For lo, the winter is past. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing of birds has come and the sound of the turtledove is heard in our land."

Song of Solomon 2: 12-12