Once I left the windowless room where I work, I realized that it was absolutely beautiful outside. Days like this make the lab a blessing and a curse, I don’t know how beautiful the weather is to enjoy it, but I also know how beautiful the weather is, so I don’t feel trapped inside.

Came home and opened the windows on the storm doors, and then grabbed my pruners and went to look at my plant life. Cut off a bunch of dead wood on a variety of plants, and closely inspected everything else.

It looks as if neither of the roses we planted at the end of the summer made it through the winter, and I’m not sure about the Wiegalia at the bottom of the hill, but almost everything else had buds. How exciting! Things are growing! There will soon be leaves!

Bulbs are coming up all over the place. I saw, besides the crocuses that are already blooming, daffodils that look as if they may flower soon, and the start of tulips and hyacinths. I also saw green growth where the bleeding heart comes up, as well as under the dead leaves of the mums, day lilies, and the hydrangea.

The only damper on the green ecstasy was that when I raked the last of the leaves from the front, it looks as if, despite the fact that we’ve seeded it for the past two years, anything other than spotty patches of grass are not going to happen.

It’s not that I care that much about grass, it’s just that I don’t know what else to attempt to grow there. It’s deep shade, and even deep shade grass didn’t seem to take, nor have any of the shade flowers and plants done well.

Ah well, I have another spring and summer to try and find something to grow there, so it’s not all bad.

Happy spring!