The plants, they are confused.

[sarahmichelef]

Our perennials are confuuuuuuuused.  They didn't get the memo that the low tonight is in the single digits and it's not supposed to break freezing until Wednesday of this week; they're starting to come up.  I have seen shoots of crocus and daffodil - and it's not just old plantings, or the ones that tried to come up a second time this fall, either - some ones that are coming up are bulbs that I put in new this year.  The garlic that is anchoring our vegetable garden hasn't started, though.  Hopefully they will weather what remains of the winter all right.

(Speaking of - can anybody believe that Daylight Savings Time starts NEXT WEEK?)

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[irihs.livejournal.com]

I had a moment of panic and ran to our window, where 1. I realized that it's still dark out, 2. I remembered that it's storming now, and 3, I remembered that even before that storm we still had a nice blanket of snow on our bulbs. So hopefully they didn't have an opportunity to be fooled by an early warm snap. I did see a cardinal on Friday, and a whole flock of birdies at our neighbor's feeder yesterday. Time to get a feeder or 10 set up around here, since the birds seem to be of the opinion that it's Spring!

Wow, I didn't even realize that next week is the start of DST. I'm usually neutral on that, but am looking forward to it this year. I could use the light. Also, knitting bloggers with 9-5 jobs appreciate the opportunity to do photography mid-week after work with natural light. It's just a little thing, but it's so hard to blog in the winter when I can only take photos on the weekends. If I'm home. If there's light.