Vireya's Blog

I lost track of recording things to be happy about this week. I was concentrating too much on the bleakness. But there were good things alon...

 From the garden for the first day of spring:  

 A sunny day with a top temperature of 17.6 C. Spring is in the air!   This is a Turkestan tulip, Tulipa turkestanica: We have a pot of the...

I read an article this morning that suggested we aren't living in a timeline, but in a timesoup . "As the hours, days, weeks and mo...

Pretty pink: Notice the chook lurking in the background? She and her friends have been eating the low-hanging blossom on the almond and a...

A beautiful morning for the first day of spring. Apricot blossom: Grape hyacinths: Spring stars: Regular hyacinth: Daffodi...

A touch of orange: The first of the third layer of tulips is opening, and it appears to be orange! I'm surprised how long the flowers...

Peach blossom in the orchard: More daffodils in the front "lawn": And now there are four tulips open in the layered pot: ...

So far there is blossom on the almond, nectarine, and plum trees. The perfume of the blossom is lovely. And on warmer days the bees are busy...

First apricot blossom open on the last day of winter:

Almond flowers open on a beautiful spring day.

The almond tree still hasn't any open blossom. A plum has become the second tree to begin flowering: Another little touch of spring ...

In previous years the almond trees have been the first to blossom in spring, but this year it is a nectarine:

Everywhere I look, spring is happening. My Japanese maple leaves are popping out: Apple blossom: This one's a crab apple in th...