Tiny Daffodils

 From the Greenhouse

These have been calling for spring. They started pushing out new growth after the deep cold. They are re-blooms in their little bird bowl. I brought them into my kitchen to enjoy the tiny flowers. 

Sunday Snow and Sun

 Snow

Valentines night brought snow. Enough to obliterate the road. Did I want to go driving this morning? I did not. Did we anyway? We did. Church day. And I had to play the music. Music-playing son was just getting back from South Africa. 

Sun

Down in the flatter lands, there was no snow. And after church the sun came out. So after dinner, we had sunshine for our hike back to the town where we have church. The route is through fields and forests, and up and down hills. And it went along a barricade of tank-stoppers and bunkers from WWII. (I forgot to get a picture.) The area is close to the German border. The Germans were not foolhardy enough to try to invade Switzerland. Only the Americans “accidentally “ got lost and dropped some bombs on Swiss cities,

Restaurant 

We passed a homestead with an ostentation (yup, that’s the collective) of peafowl, 

A hunters’ cabin

Beside this cabin was a sign post with some fine poetry about being quiet, keeping your dog on a leach, and taking your trash with you. I was told the sign was very old, and the poet probably dead by now. Sigh. I think forest signs should all be in poetry.

Happy Valentines Day

 In Roses

Re-Rooting

 New Growth

Last summer we grew a big crop of Wirz. This is a cruciferous plant, like cabbage. It was more than enough for two people, so some we left in the garden bed in the winter. It winters well. Eventually, piece by piece, the heads came in to the refrigerator. Today I noticed new leaves sprouting on one in the refrigerator. It is growing new roots on the cut stalk.  So I put it in a window to see if it will produce some chlorophyll and green up. 

Valentines

 Pretties

Don’t we like to decorate for seasons or holidays, even a one-day one? I have a couple of little trees that I like to decorate for seasons. 

Getting Ready

 Love to Mom

Letters take a long time to cross oceans and states, so I start my greetings for a specific holiday well ahead. This was one part, a mini wreath. Various coloring pages and colored hearts went hither and yon, too. 

Here is one for you.

Look, Look

 What I See in the Greenhouse 

After the heavy cold of the winter weeks, which some of my plants did not survive, these hardy little ones are coming forth. Already. 

This is always my earliest re-bloomer. I will bring it in to enjoy, when it is a bit further along. They don’t last so long inside, but they bring great cheer while they bloom Then the pot goes back out to rest until next February. 

And these have kept blooming in the greenhouse through all the hard days of winter.

And More

 Bright Blooms

The rest opened. Winter cheer and color for grey, foggy days. And more, another stem is coming. 

Happy February

 In Red

And Coming

 For February