Somewhere It's Spring.

3-19-13 VERMONT: We came to Vermont yesterday with granddaughter Lucy for her vacation week. We got here a few hours ahead of the snow. The storm paused this morning after leaving us five inches of whiteness and then resumed after we ran our errands.

Spring starts tomorrow, but it doesn’t look like it here, except for the silver buckets hanging from the sugar maples. When we drove in the road was muddy and rutted, but now it has solidified with snow and ice.

I saw a big bird fly by and land in a birch tree early this morning. I think it was a red tailed hawk. Within a few minutes a bunch of crows landed in the same tree, apparently to intimidate the hawk, who left a little later. It seems too soon, but perhaps the crows are starting to nest.

New blooms: before we left NJ, there were snowdrops popping up all over and Vinca minor, next to the house, with purple flowers.


Red tailed hawk, I think, back view, with only a hint of red in the tail.

Hawk, frontal view with harassing crow.

Braving the storm.