Winter Hangs On.

4-11-13 VERMONT: Winter is hanging on here. We’re on the cusp of spring, but it will be a few weeks yet. Daytime temps are in the forties, while over night it drops back to near freezing. The pasture gets more sun and is snow free, but the house yard is more shaded, and the piles under the eaves are still huge.

Daylilies are showing their first leaves, as are lamium and a few others. Snowdrops are open where the snow is gone. Some new snow is predicted for tonight. The road isn’t bad, only a few muddy spots.

I filled the feeders when we got here, and they’re being mobbed by the usual customers—chickadees, juncos, nuthatches, mourning doves, finches, sparrows, downy woodpeckers and red squirrels.

New blooms: snowdrops.


Snowdrops starting as the melting sets them free.

Plenty of snow here.

And ice here. The ice melts around the edges of the pond, leaving a big floating island that slowly shrinks away.

More icy piles.