With the weather warming up (ever so slightly), we've been able to resume our morning walks. J wanted to focus on finding and photographing signs of spring this morning, so we brought my camera to see if we could capture some signs that life really IS going to return around here at some point. We've had some pretty good luck finding spring signs in the places we visit, but here in our own neighborhood things are moving a bit slower thanks to it always being about ten degrees cooler than it is anywhere else.
We discovered the first of the skunk cabbage coming up in a marshy area. Didn't seem like there was much else in the way of greening up going on there yet, though.
J stopped to examine the buds on a Sugar Maple. They are still small without much sign of leaves, but at least they are red and adding a bit of color to the gray landscape. The grass in the pastures is also starting to green up, although it hasn't begun growing yet. Soon, I think. (And our sheep hope!)
The forsythia are trying really hard to push some blossoms out. They are all showing the slightest yellowing now, and I suspect by the weekend we'll see a burst of yellow flowers.
Zoo Boy examines a vernal pool for signs of life. No frogs or salamanders seen today, still too chilly. He and J are both looking forward to a nice warm, rainy spring night so we can drive around and look for amphibians moving to their breeding pools to lay eggs.
Grace poses by some emerging Horsetails. I love Horsetails, they're just such primitive plants, they seem out of place growing along a New England stone wall.
With the weather warming up (ever so slightly), we've been able to resume our morning walks. J wanted to focus on finding and photographing signs of spring this morning, so we brought my camera to see if we could capture some signs that life really IS going to return around here at some point. We've had some pretty good luck finding spring signs in the places we visit, but here in our own neighborhood things are moving a bit slower thanks to it always being about ten degrees cooler than it is anywhere else.
We discovered the first of the skunk cabbage coming up in a marshy area. Didn't seem like there was much else in the way of greening up going on there yet, though.
J stopped to examine the buds on a Sugar Maple. They are still small without much sign of leaves, but at least they are red and adding a bit of color to the gray landscape. The grass in the pastures is also starting to green up, although it hasn't begun growing yet. Soon, I think. (And our sheep hope!)
The forsythia are trying really hard to push some blossoms out. They are all showing the slightest yellowing now, and I suspect by the weekend we'll see a burst of yellow flowers.
Zoo Boy examines a vernal pool for signs of life. No frogs or salamanders seen today, still too chilly. He and J are both looking forward to a nice warm, rainy spring night so we can drive around and look for amphibians moving to their breeding pools to lay eggs. 
Grace poses by some emerging Horsetails. I love Horsetails, they're just such primitive plants, they seem out of place growing along a New England stone wall.
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