Happy March!
I spent a lot of time looking down today on my walk. There were several reasons for this. First, it was extremely windy and also spitting rain. Also, last nights torrential rains and thunderstorms left puddles to avoid and also WORMS! all over the pavement. Definitely something to avoid, as a person. I did enjoy watching 2 robins hop around and pick them up, though.
Looking down, I got to see a lot of bulb plants poking their foliage up through the soil... The rounded still fingers of daffodil leaves, the wide pointy tulip leaves... Every yard has its signs of spring emerging. Still, I was pretty surprised to see this actual purple crocus poking through! (This same yard had many purple and a sprinkling of yellow crocuses, all in this stage of bloom.)
At one point when I did look up, I was taken by how much the aspen catkins had changed in the past few days -- and how wet and sorry they looked, like a soggy dog!
BTW... glad I got out for a little walk before this happened:
This was the afternoon view out my office window... thick, whirling, swirling snow. I guess Baba Marta has some dirty carpets. (Explanation: today at school we celebrated Baba Marta day, which is a Bulgarian holiday to welcome and encourage the start of spring. Grandmother March is very temperamental and gets angry or sad and then happy as the March weather quickly changes. We were told than when it snows in March, that's Baba Marta cleaning the dust out of her carpets. We all learned something new today!)
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