Or Maybe Not Spring

Yesterday morning I got up to tulips just ready to bloom. This morning, I get up to THIS WHITE MESS!

The plum tree was just about ready to burst into bloom when it got coated with white crap last night. Notice the green of the leaves beneath the mounds of snow.

Luckily by noon it was all thawed off and the tulips joyously burst into bloom, welcoming the sunshine however brief it may be.

This afternoon the garden was dry enough I was able to plant some snow peas, radishes, lettuce and beets.

Then I sat and soaked up the sunshine like an old Hereford cow.

April Fools!!

How did that old margarine commercial go? You can't fool mother nature.

Maybe we can't fool her, but she can sure fool us.

Three days ago we had a lovely spring day, the grass was greening up, the hyacinths were poking some leaves up out of the soil. Chives were greening up even faster than the grass. And then the forecasted blizzard arrived. We didn't get a lot of snow, not like some places, but here's my front step.

And here is the arbor where on Saturday I had big geraniums sunning themselves.