Spring is Sprung

Well~I couldn't be later, but here goes with my Spring photochallenge. After checking out tod, dilling and cindydianne, I feel a little like an underachiever, but hey, it's the best I could do with 5 minutes free time a day right now.

Blogger has been giving me some serious grief, too and won't let me move my photos around once they're up...grrr....

Spring means we get out into the yard, gardening, sidewalk painting, and hanging off the deck taking pictures of people gardening and sidewalk painting.

Snowdrops. Spring on the island first appears in the form of snowdrops. they pop up in ditches and under trees.

Anybody know what these are? Pretty pink somethings. It is so exciting to have colour to take pictures of. I was getting so tired of dead and grey. We don't get a lot of sparkly and white here in the winter.

Herring are running by the island. Lots of fishing boats and seiners lurking in wait. They haven't got here yet, any day, I would expect. The water turns frothy blue silver with the roe and there are birds and seals and sea lions. The run is always in the spring around this time.


The best and brightest blooms are outside city hall. I spent time before work crawling around looking for my favourite bulbs and blossoms. Nobody paid any attention to me. I wonder if they thought I was a homeless person just waking up?

A few houses down from mom's place is this tree. It is always the first to flower. You can see it's still chilly by the smoke from someones wood stove around it....

Pretty, huh? I love fruit blossoms, although I think this is ornamental.

Here come the crocuses. They are not to be resisted. It is the most colour I've seen in months. It was frosty. I find it strange that the frost doesn't seem to harm the petals.

The frost had melted into teeny tiny droplets on some. I didn't even see them until I processed the pictures. More crocuses to follow, what can I say about them?



They're springy.