At last!

Yep! I'm gonna say it! Spring is finally here.

Yes. I know Mother Nature may toss another bout of snow at us (but it wont' last long) and some of my fellow Ontarians are still trying to get rid of the snowpiles they already have. Including this one at Mom's...

Of course, Ladydog doesn't mind it so much.


But I'm declaring Spring at last because we've had several consecutive days above freezing (sure it was cold and rainy for some - but it wasn't ice and snow!), and look what's happening in my gardens...

The ever-bearing strawberries in the back garden are starting to green up! I was a little worried I lost these because I forgot to cover them up before winter, but looks like they did okay.

Out front...

I believe these are the mini-daffodils

And these should be the tulips. The squirrels did run off with some of the bulbs, but I've got about 25 plants just starting to poke up, so I'll consider that a success for this year!I've got to get out and clean some of the old dead plant life away, but that will wait for a warm sunny day - we should have one soon.

Indoors, I had to cover up the black eyed susans with saran-wrap again... the trays were getting noticiably sparser every day.

I strongly suspect someone striped and furry...

"Don't look at me... I was sitting here watching the squirrels the whole time... honest."