Everywhere You Look...

...those little signs of Spring are coming along nicely. Like here, with this first budding daffodil. Today I did some more raking...and even a little watering (with nearly no snow, and little rain to speak of, we need it!)

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Or the little columbine leaf-lets that have begun poking up out of the ground nad unfurling their leaves.

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And this tiny grape hyacinth is slightly ahead of the pack, forming a little flower cluster already.(For scale, those ARE pine needles.)

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This enthusiastic lily sprout only needed the weekend to bring itself into the upright and locked position.

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