Slowly Spring

Slowly but surely spring is springing around here.  While no trees have leaves yet, there are buds, some plants are coming up and the grass is turning green again.  We also have one daffodil plant flowering and another just about to open.  Still seems pretty chilly most days, though about normal, I guess.  Recent days have started below freezing and may get close to 50ºF in the afternoon.  So yes, it is spring here, it just seems to be coming on very slowly.

We put cages around the new bushes we got to go along the fence last year.  Even with a mild winter, the rabbits have eaten them down terribly.  Maybe the outside ones will come back if protected, but I'm not seeing any sign of life from the middle one yet.  The critters just have no fear back there so can and will eat everything they fancy, anything we try.  I even had to cage a small area of lawn I'm trying to reseed but it kept getting dug up when I did.  I'd like some ornamental grasses, too, but those would stand no chance at all.  

I've also not had a fire yet this spring even though there were a few opportunities.  But nights are cold, and I've just begun to do some outside spring chores.  Pretty much just those cages, seeding, and cutting up the lilac wood for burning, from what I had to remove for the new fence last year.  The garage got swept out, and I considered putting the snowblower away for the season, but didn't.  No, not quite yet.

Green olive focaccia bread