First Sprigs of Spring....

        I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.  ~Ruth Stout



I always try to bring in some spring flowering branches in February, but this year they were too covered with snow to reach any (my Forsythia is on the other side of the yard!)

But I could reach some very delicate branches of a small flowering Bridal Wreath that a neighbor had given me a sprig of a few years ago.  I didn't think anything would come of it in the house since it is so delicate, and the flower so small.  I have been taking pics for 3 weeks now and intended to wait until the 4th to post any, but I am afraid what I have now might be it (we'll see) and there is a Red Geranium flower out now.  The sun coming in the window is getting so strong (when we have it out) that it was making white spots on the red flower so I figured I better get it now.  I have had this geranium for about 7 years now.  I bring it in in the winter and put it out in the summer.  If it starts to look leggy I cut it back and stick the stems I cut back into the pot... 

                                           Here is week one, when I first brought them in-

                                                              
                                                            Week 2-wow!  Signs of green!

                                                  
                                                         Week 3 (this week)  Look really really close because my camera doesn't go any closer to a flower this small...

                                                      Look close now....

                                                              
If these branches should suddenly spring forth and be covered with white, I will take their picture....but I think it might just be the pretty spring green leaves..and one tiny blossom here and there...we'll see.

Every little sign of spring is welcomed after a long white and black/gray winter!!  I Love spring, all things new and all that.  This town is full of Dogwoods, (pink and white) and Redbuds, Magnolias, and Forsythias...and all sorts of flowering trees and shrubs, so it is very pretty.  The gardens look well organized before the 'tropical jungles" or summer arrive....I Love spring...

I am looking forward to the first signs of spring in the great outdoors!

Lots of running around to do over the next couple of days...chicken feed, and other such things..new hay...

See ya later,

Janie