Oh Yippee, I finally got to walk around in the garden today. Yesterday was special because I saw my first bluebird and that always makes me ecstatic, but today it was actually warm enough to walk around in the garden a bit. I know my old photography teacher would say this is a picture of dirt. You're darn right it is! I had to look for awhile to find a nice bare patch of garden dirt that wasn't under water or snow. This one had the bonus of Siberian squill breaking through the surface. It won't be long until magnificent blue flowers will appear.
Most of the garden looks more like this. The great majority of our plants are still covered in white icy snow and water. This dianthus looks pretty terrific to me even surrounded in icy white.
The very tips of the first of my daffodils can be seen here. I was hoping to see my snow drops or lovely little Dutch iris that are in this bed making an appearance, but they are still under the snow.
Ed's lettuce that he planted in the basement is coming up. Just the idea of having my own lettuce makes me salivate in expectation. I'm glad we can buy lettuce in the store through the winter, but the price is steep and the quality poor when compared to fresh lettuce from the garden. Ed's lettuce came up in just 3 days! Not every pot has the four plants he hoped for, but it is still early.
Just feast your eyes on these four gorgeous, if tiny, lettuce plants. Three days ago they were a tiny seed. Imagine the changes a week will bring. There's a lot of dirt in this post, but there's a lot of great promise for the future too!
3 comments:
My yard looks much like yours - it's very exciting to finally see patches of dirt instead of just snow! I saw the tips of daffodils for the first time today. I can't wait for them to be in bloom!
I am so jealous. But I am also starting some seeds in the house.
Too much snow! We're warmer here, that's for sure. Like your little lettuce sprouts. We just started tomatoes.
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