by spring!
May the longer days put a spring in your step, dear readers in the northern hemisphere.
As if in honour of the vernal equinox this evening, today we’ve had a respite from the November-like monsoons. The sunshine is a gift to weary Vancouverites. Even the cold wind coming down from snowy peaks doesn’t matter. It was 10C today, going to 2C tonight. Sunrise at 7:16, Sunset at 19:24. I’ve finally started a few tomato, pepper and basil seeds, rather late I know.
Happy Spring to you all!
March 20, 2007 in Canada and BC, Current Events, Home by Marja-Leena
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
Wordsworth
One of my favourite flowers, I can smell them looking at your picture. Those little tubular new leaves are so fresh. Thanks and a Happy Spring to you also.
Anna, Thank you for the Wordsworth! I was thrilled to find these in bloom today, though they are a bit chewed up by slugs, and crowded by self-seeded foxgloves.
I too noticed some kind of little wild violets hiding under a bush today, out of the way of the winds and snow that have battered my daffodils into submission.
Mr. Zip – you have wild violets? How lovely. Mine is a plant a friend gave to me some years ago. And I know what you mean about battered daffodils, with all our heavy rains!
The violets seemed to stray in from next door, which is just as well as they’ve now paved over their garden.
Mr. Zip – you’ll just have to compensate even more in your garden, to make up for the paved over (!!??) garden. Some people…