this is the end…
..considering the size of the piles this winter, a small reminder of what was.
Isn't spring grand?
Drying sweaters outdoors is SO much easier. I finished my Dark and Stormy over the weekend, weaving in the last ends this evening after packing the truck for the NH Sheep & Wool Festival.
Out on the pond, the Canada Geese have nested on the smallest of the islands. Most years there are two pairs. This year, if the other couple is around, I haven't seen them.
Look carefully between the two evergreens. She's sort of hard to see.
Momma's looking away from me. Dad chased away two Canada geese that flew in the other day. Couldn't have been the other pair, they've aways shared parenting chores. Very strange. What has happened to them? The geese must miss them, too. They've let a lone Mallard Duck take turns guarding the nest. If only I could chase away the beaver that is hoping to make his new home here on the pond as easily.
The blackberry patch has dried enough to get in to thin out last year's canes.
It's a prickery business that leaves me looking like the loser in a cat fight. But, it isn't a job that I mind. Something about it, working in the sun, one of the earliest gardening chores of the season.. I don't know. Look how rewarding, see how nice it looks afterwards. maybe it looks good to me because I know what it will become. I can taste the berries. (Probably from breakfast, there are still loads in the freezers. We love them in yogurt.)
While the native landscape hasn't shown much bright color, the transplants are brightening it up. Another thing to put on my list.. learn how to prune. It isn't in my nature. The bushes are wild, out of control.
Don't be fooled by the next picture. I am NOT silly enough to think that there won't be more fires in the woodstove this year. But, for today..
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7 responses to “No doubt about it..”
Beautiful photos Judy! It is gorgeous where you live!!!
Spring certainly has sprung in the Northeast Kingdom! I love forsythia yellow. I really lights up a room. Mine are on their way out. 🙁
Congrats on the sweater. Bringing it Saturday? I’d love to see it in person.
I didn’t know that geese allowed a mallard to help guard the nest. Interesting factoid.
I loved Kristin Nicholas’s (Getting Stitched on the Farm blog) photo of rhubarb leaves in a vase. Picked some, ate the rhubarb as a cobbler, and have the leaves in an old enamel coffee pot on the screened porch (for the bears, don’t you know). See you tomorrow, looking forward to Dark & Stormy. Cheers, Shelagh.
Love being able to sneak a peak into your world 🙂 We’re heading north this weekend to open up the lake house – not looking forward to the work, but as you say, the reward is key! Love the forsythia!
Your forsythia is coming as mine is leaving or shall I say leafing?
Your Dark and Stormy looks fantastic!
Have a wonderful weekend, wish I could be there! Heard (a rumor?) that Habtrot spindles will make a debut! What fun!
Beautiful pictures. It seems it doesn’t rain all the time in your world. Lucky.
Love the sweater – and so true about drying outside. And pruning. This week we have rain – lots more for our arid country.
Have fun this weekend and if you see Deb Robson – be sure to get a copy of her new book!!