It is in the mid-fifties which is not warm, and there isn’t sunshine every day, but I just love this time of year. The air is full of birds singing away - white throated sparrow, woodcock, thrush, robin, finches both purple (which are really red - why are they called that?) and gold, mourning dove, chickadee, nuthatch, junco, crow, and still a few turkeys, though the mating season has wound down and the ladies are in the woods on their nests. I heard a red-winged blackbird today which I haven’t heard here for years. And the peepers and woodfrogs! It is just glorious. Every single day there is something new popping out of the ground or flowering. The pictures become a bit clearer if you click on them. The forsythia makes me feel like I am immersed in yellow.
What a beautiful time of year to experience a walk on your property. I love forsythias and our always put on quite the show, as yours are doing. This was in Pennsylvania though and they don't have the magnificent blooms in Florida.
ReplyDeleteNot such a great time to walk around too long because of the ticks! haha You've got some pretty great blooms down there!
DeleteNan, so glad to see such lovely pictures of your spring flowers! Just beautiful. I love spring as well, though our bluebonnets are now gone (they bloomed early this year for whatever reason). There are other wildflowers around though and will be for a bit. We have had more rain than in the past couple of years at this time and that is helping. Hope you guys are doing well. I think of you often. :-)
ReplyDeleteDo the bluebonnets grow in gardens or just wild in fields?
DeleteGreat photos, Nan. All of that new life is almost overwhelming sometimes. We're having a really wet spring season so everything is very green here right now...if it doesn't all wash away. We've had eleven inches of rain at my house in the last two days and over thirty for 2024 so far. That's after last summer's severe drought, though, so you won't catch me complaining - much.
ReplyDeleteThat is a lot of rain! But I'm with you. I'd always rather have rain than no rain.
DeleteI adore tulips, don't you? Forsythia, I love too. My sister was born in Forsyth, Georgia. Someone got wise and planted Forsythia all over the place there, makes me wish I lived in a town that could link itself to a flowering bush! Hope you are doing well, Nan! x
ReplyDeleteIs the town name pronounce "sigh" or "sith"? In the US, people all say sith but it really should be the other because it is named after William Forsyth, and his name is pronounced sigh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forsyth_(horticulturist)
DeleteLove your tulips mixed with pussy willow. Was very surprised that the deer ate my tulips, I didn’t realize they were a deer treat
ReplyDeleteMaybe they ate them because nothing else was available?? They nibbled my daylilies but haven't been back again so the plants are growing back.
DeleteI love reading about Spring on the Hill Farm. That's why I read blogs -- like good literature it lets me live another life for a few moments. Thank you for sharing your beautiful one. And I'm actually a little green with envy about your amazing CSA bouquets -- I really need something like that in my life, it would sure beat supermarket bouquets t. .
ReplyDeleteSuch a nice comment. Makes me feel good. I really mean to write more. Are there no CSAs where you are? I thought they were pretty common.
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