A friend wrote a song this winter and one of the lines says, "branches are bare, but green is hidden there."
Today, I am thinking about all that 'hidden green' about to burst forth in the next several weeks. The photo above was taken north of town - it's called a fen. You can just smell the wet lichens here, feel the slimy rock surface under that spring water. I checked our sap buckets last night, and there's about one cup of sap in each one. So, it is beginning, it is happening. I'm sure that those 5 gallon sap buckets will soon be overflowing and in need of emptying more and more often in the coming days. Spring IS coming!
Horseback riding, another good spring/summer shot. This is our daughter and a friend's horse, they are both enjoying the ride!
Our driveway becomes a speedway for our nephew, here taking his cousin's skateboard (race car) for a spin!
Before we know it, these beauties will be in full bloom in my garden. I sure hope in my drive to kill all the aggressive Bishop's Weed in my garden last fall, I didn't accidentally dig these up too. I'll know in June!
Summer vacations to the Rockies - one of our family's favorite places in the whole world.
Fishing for trout in one of the many local trout streams. I can smell the water and grasses in this image, can you?
Another vehicle for our driveway speedway. And yes, they really did take it down the drive as fast as they could go. Those are two skateboards under the wood planks!
Canoeing, kayaking, or inner-tubing down the river, another Spring/Summer activity I'm looking forward to again!
Our grassy backyard and the bag swing, more spring fun! It will be here soon and we'll be ready for it. Until then, we'll keep the sap running, the syrup
boilin' soon, and our spirits up!
A friend wrote a song this winter and one of the lines says, "branches are bare, but green is hidden there."
Today, I am thinking about all that 'hidden green' about to burst forth in the next several weeks. The photo above was taken north of town - it's called a fen. You can just smell the wet lichens here, feel the slimy rock surface under that spring water. I checked our sap buckets last night, and there's about one cup of sap in each one. So, it is beginning, it is happening. I'm sure that those 5 gallon sap buckets will soon be overflowing and in need of emptying more and more often in the coming days. Spring IS coming!
Horseback riding, another good spring/summer shot. This is our daughter and a friend's horse, they are both enjoying the ride!
Our driveway becomes a speedway for our nephew, here taking his cousin's skateboard (race car) for a spin!
Before we know it, these beauties will be in full bloom in my garden. I sure hope in my drive to kill all the aggressive Bishop's Weed in my garden last fall, I didn't accidentally dig these up too. I'll know in June!
Summer vacations to the Rockies - one of our family's favorite places in the whole world. 
Fishing for trout in one of the many local trout streams. I can smell the water and grasses in this image, can you?
Another vehicle for our driveway speedway. And yes, they really did take it down the drive as fast as they could go. Those are two skateboards under the wood planks!
Canoeing, kayaking, or inner-tubing down the river, another Spring/Summer activity I'm looking forward to again!
Our grassy backyard and the bag swing, more spring fun! It will be here soon and we'll be ready for it. Until then, we'll keep the sap running, the syrup boilin' soon, and our spirits up!
5 comments:
Like Mike Rowe says on Dirty Jobs . . . Hmmmmmmm I can smell it now!
It'll be there before you know it. It's almost here where I live.
Oh yeah, you been tagged.
I've always loved that photo of our youngest nephew
Beautiful post. I cracked up when I saw Ruthie and the horse with the same smile. I had to show Foster - he LOVED it. He loved the homemade gadgets, too. He immediately got his skateboard and went outside.
We're getting a slow start for Spring, but that's perfectly fine with me. As you know, summer can be hell.
Miss you bunches.
I loved those pictures. We're going a little stir-crazy here waiting for spring to arrive. I noticed some green showing through some prairie grasses in the garden, down underneath the dead brown parts. That was encouraging.
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