They are here! They are here! The first spring flowers are up and blooming. I found the buds of the Winter Aconite last Saturday afternoon after those two warm days. They weren’t quite open, but it was color. I was certain they would be fully open by Sunday but it wasn’t to be since the weather cooled off. When they do open they will resemble our native Buttercup with a whorl of leaflets below the bloom.

Monday I was at my friend Debbie’s and found her early Iris and a clump of crocus. So even though spring does not officially start until Friday, the 20th, the flowers, at least some of them, are here now. More will come soon. I can see signs, the first leaves, of the tulips and daffodils showing more and more.