Can that be Spring we smell in the air?

It's not really warm, but getting there. It got a little melty today, you could see it in the snow slowly sinking down into dirty mounds, the icicles growing skinnier and shorter, and around the base of each tree, a little bare ground.


Somehow it just smells a little different, and things are moving a little faster. The bees are active, sending little scouts out to see if anything is blooming yet, and the deer are moving around too.
















Jim spotted 5 deer beds, all together in one spot in the back woods-like they'd gathered for a group campout. Maybe a deerish Jamboree?

We felt so hopeful, we scraped the snow off of the raised bed and erected a plastic cover over it. In a day or two it should warm enough to plant lettuces in that bed and get our delicious Spring salads started. Yummy.