snow drops coming up in the front yard.... and yes a DAFFODIL. All hail St. David!

It doesn't quite smell like spring yet (I know what you mean about the worms turning stuff over) but the ground finally thawed out. It was hard as a rock for a week or two. We often get the smell of the sea here (it's close) and you can for sure smell the seasons change from that.

FYI it's a cold miserable windy wet morning in the Sound. I wish I could lay in bed all day, but alas I have to pay for my upcoming trip, so........... heigh ho to work I go........

Alas the large Roman nose is bred out of me, but it might have skipped a generation (recessive gene) my son is pretty well endowed with nostrils. His dad has a nice big Roman nose too. I'm suspicious now that my Irish ancestor originally came from France!!! (many Frankish noses there!) Ah the things that ancestryonline.com will tell us. Don't worry about it, yours is fine.

I'll try it next time I walk past those morning glories at the end of the fence. I don't care what people think of me when I'm sniffing flowers. This place will be a riot of color in another week or two, the way the bulbs are starting to come up.

We have peach blossoms just starting here, and the Bish in Stratford on Avon says they have white pear blossoms starting. I'm off today to look for more daffodils.... I've had one for a week, but I think it died already.

Happy St. David's Day!

Well heart attacks should be good for business............... yeah I agree, that was a bit tasteless. My dog sure gives some heart attacks when he barks. The big bully. I tell him he's a bully too. Be careful, she might get over protective.

All the above with flowers here.... we're in a micro climate up on a cold hill, so our things bloom a few days behind those in town. Lots of daffodils down there already, and they aren't quite out here yet. BUT I do have some lovely little violets (wild) coming up............ my birth flower and yours too, leslee.