Spring Is Here.

3-5-23 SHORT HILLS: Alison came to visit yesterday, Dan is in Florida with his book club, well that’s their story anyway. We shared Jo’s from the Millburn Deli and went to the Great Swamp Refuge. It was cool and breezy, but there were a lot of people with cameras walking the board walks. We saw a few birds and visited the raptor center also. 

Last night we had dinner with Bette and Lonnie, and today we were in the city for brunch with Sara and Jon at Bar Boulud. Before we went to NYC, we walked the dogs around the block and saw that we have crocus up. It’s not very warm, and it’s breezy with a west wind and partly cloudy, but good enough for crocus and snowflakes and vinca.

New blooms: elm, red maple, snowflake, crocus, vinca.

A Merlin, a smallish raptor, posing on a dead tree close to the viewing platfporm.

A pair of American black ducks, the male has the yellow bill.

Everybody's favorites, a pair of Canada geese.

Black vulture resting while a couple others circle above.

Crocus. I have officially declared that Spring is Open.

Vinca minor is always the first ground cover to bloom.

Snowflakes, cousins of snowdrops, have been open for a few days.