Early Blooms.

3-25-12 SHORT HILLS: March isn’t like July anymore, but like April today. It was comfortable working outside, once again doing the pool fence. I finished the fourth side, but have one more post to do by the front gate, I did four sections of fence today.

We came home to green grass and many flowers, everything is very early.

New blooms: pachysandra, daffodils, bleeding heart, pulmonaria, violet, forsythia, spice bush, kerria, cherry tree, pear tree, saucer magnolia.


This creature was the one we saw swimming in Otter Creek, Middlebury, VT. The pic has been maximally tweaked. I guess it's an otter, other suggestions have been beaver and muskrat...anyone?