Psst....it's a secret...

...shh, we must be quiet, careful not to scare it away, but there might just be a sign of Spring--so shy this year, so afraid to shed her white cloak...but, I think, maybe, there must might be wee buds on the apple tree next door...!! Oops--there, it's out of the bag! Of course, there is too much snow for Lazy Gnome to do a proper investigation, but from the window there are wee little knobby things at the end of the branches....ooh, it is soooo exciting!!

Do you remember what spring looks like? What is your favourite first sign of Spring?

Also today there were swarms of Bohemian waxwings aloft in 6 elms out front, taking turns pecking at cones in the huge spruce next door--odd that the little birds look so much larger from a distance than relatively close up, leaving their red dropping-calling cards! And they were all chattering, hundreds of birds versus one squirrel chippering away! Suddenly, the chattering stopped, and with one soft "whoosh" of their wings, they all soared south, then north again, to reconvene at the peaks of another ever green down the street. But, they are hardly a sign of spring: LG saw swarms of them when she was out raking the snow off the roof in mid-January!

Until next time, LG signing off, off sign hunting! LG