More Spring Showers

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the bumble bees love the dead nettle

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Lots of buttercups this year

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The bleeding heart was totally wiped out from the deep frost we had a couple weeks ago.

They have come back.

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Our last butternut squash from our 2015 harvest.

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viburnum, abelia and ranunculus

My mom and sister visited for a couple of days.

A good excuse to splurge on flowers from the farmers market.

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ranunculus

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magenta orach – a good addition to salad – volunteers from the insectary mix we grew last year in the barn garden

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early scarlet globe radishes

Spring Showers

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Two months of winds, three weeks of dryness and then a week of rain and more to come. Spring has sprung!

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sweet woodruff

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Less than a month old and the chicks are down by the spring house foraging with the rest of the flock.

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Leo

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A proud and dutiful protector and provider. I saw him give a little crawly thing to one of the chicks.

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I believe this is the youngest chick.

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See all the marvelous watercress in the spring. I must remember to harvest some for lunch.

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Dave can’t resist and the chick soon settles down.

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