Spring in February (and other strange happenings)

[forest_choir]

We here at Loam's Down are officially Tired of Winter.
The weekend was so warm that we just had to Get Outside.  When we came back after running an errand in town, we threw our coats down onto the ground without  even going into the house first.  Then we started weeding the raised garden beds.  Under a thick layer of weeds, we found sprouting daffodils, daylilies, chives, walking onions, lavender, bergamot, fennel, and rhubarb. 



It's such a joy to see these sprouts after so much ice and snow!
I joked to stormsongk that I should take a picture of the rhubarb sprout every day for the next week to see how long it takes that little leaf to unfurl now that it can see the sun.  :)

I also pruned my 6-foot-tall 'Honorine de Brabant' rosebush.  Note to self: just because a rose has mostly thornless canes does not mean that there is not a thicket of doom at the base of the plant.  Ouch.

stormsongk found something unusual when he reached into the pocket of his coat: a nest of twisters from bread wrappers.  No one in our house collects these and he can't figure out where they came from.
I said, "It's probably the faeries," and he agreed.
Whenever strange things pop up, we good-naturedly blame the faeries.