Spring Cometh

Pay no attention to the time and date on these photos. They were actually taken on Sunday I just didn't realise that the time and date (which I had not set) would appear on the photos.

Winter aconite at the community garden.


Purple crocuses at the community garden.


Checking out the ducks and geese at the pond.



Dogwood twig and bud ready to go.


Lilac twig and buds also ready to go.

Snow day!

No school today thanks to the collision of two moisture laden low pressure systems right above our heads. Hubby went out at 8:30 AM or so 8:54 AM (so says the time stamp on the first pic on the camera) to shovel snow and just came back in. There's a lot of ice underneath the snow. Hubby cleaned the car off and chiseled it out of the ice so we won't have as much work to do later if we want to go somewhere. That's assuming of course that we can make it out of our driveway. It doesn't look like there's been a plow down our street yet. Anyway, there'll be pictures up shortly here are some pictures.


Hubby standing in the snow outside our basement door. 



Hubby down on the sidewalk as a minivan inches down the street. 



This is the Zelkova at the end of our front walkway. It's a memeber of the Elm family. (Learn more about the species here.) There are some really impressive specimens at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. 

Golden Carpet

The maples in our neck of the woods are in full colour and shedding their leaves. There is a beautiful carpet of golden leaves in our backyard and some trees with their leaves still on.


The kids' sand box shares this shot with a nearly bare box elder (in the maple family), maple saplings on the wooded slope, and some dead grape vines that I cut a couple of summers ago. Oh, and the garage of the neighbours on the south east side of the house. 



The north westerly view with the neighbours' lilacs in the foreground. 


North north west, I think the evergreen back there is a spruce. 


Back to the south south east.