Snowdrops!

3-27-15 SHORT HILLS: The knee is healing, I am now allowed to bend it to 90° of flexion, but not to bear weight, so I am still using crutches and/or the walker. I have no pain, and the sutures are out. Being able to bend it means I can ride in the front seat of the car and drive soon, hopefully.

We still have patches of snow in the yard, even after a rainy two days, and the plow-piles in the driveway are still huge. The lawn is very muddy, and the dogs seem to tract lots of it into the house to Judy’s dismay.

The grackles and red-wing blackbirds are on their way north, and have been at the feeders for a few weeks.

Snowdrops have popped up in the last couple of days as the snow has grudgingly retreated. In years with mild winters, these snowdrops have appeared as early as February. Pussy willow buds are swelling as are maples and elms.

New blooms: snowdrops.


This clump of Snowdrops is always the first in this yard.

Here are another bunch, a day or so behind and still yellowish from being buried in the snow.

And here's some of that snow which will last well into April - in New Jersey!