Spring Sings

One of the blogs I read regularly made reference to Sara Teasdale's poem "April". Though the trees are bare and there are no spring blooms yet, she knows it is spring because spring sings to her. Here in my neighborhood, spring just broke out into a chorus of yellow daffodils. Even my laggards show yellow in the bud now.

I see this neighbor's daffodils from my bedroom window. The red sprouts are the peony bushes emerging. See all of those little pine cones I wrote about earlier. I walked to the library this afternoon in very windy but sunny 70 degrees. I saw other daffodils and the star magnolia has one bloom opening along the paved walk.

Of course along with the beautiful blooms of spring come weeds. I do have a yellow bloom in my flowerbed, a dandelion.

Even though I know rain and snow are predicted for the next 3 days, I feel we have turned the corner. I hear spring's song.

Bloom of the Month: Tulips

The Bloom of the Month for April is tulips. There were coral, light pink, medium pink, and light purple to choose from. It is fun to pick up the bunch of flowers each month. We are expecting a couple of warm days, maybe even 70 tomorrow. 

I saw some daffodils in bloom in my neighborhood. The warm days and sun may hasten my daffodils to open up, too. The goldfinches turned yellow last week. Even though we will cool down next week, the coldest temperatures seem to be past. Hurray!

The library open house yesterday had about 20 people in attendance, most of whom came at the same time. LOL. All of those people along with a refreshment table crammed in to a rather small space made it cozy. 

I noticed last week that the IRS and the Indiana Department of Revenue have debited my checking account. Looks like we don't have to think about income taxes for another year. 

April Angst

We had a high of 34 today, down to 22 tonight, snow starting around midnight Sunday and into Monday. That electric blanket is going to feel good tonight. 

My husband has been watching the Masters golfing on TV. What beautiful flowers surround that course in Augusta.

I have two lily blooms left on my plant. The bloom stalk has appeared on 3 daffodils so there is hope. I think I might go pick up my Bloom of the Month tulips this week, too. 

The lady in charge of residents' activities has decided to hold a reception in the library to celebrate National Library Week. Of course she expects me to be there to answer questions, etc. I'm not too thrilled. She tried this two or three years ago, and we had 4 people show up. I have made good progress in filling in the fiction series gaps; bought 20 books in the last 2 weeks. A few of those I bought on ebay with no shipping charge. Almost as inexpensive as Better World Books. However, the shelves are almost full again.

It is going to warm up Wednesday and last for several days. It might even be 60 Thursday when we travel to Fort Wayne for an appointment and some shopping. It doesn't feel a bit like April. Today we had lots of sunshine, blue sky with puffy white clouds so it looked like spring if one didn't venture out. I haven't been outside all day. Instead I baked some zucchini bread using the last of my frozen zucchini. Oh, it smelled so good in the house.

I am so tired of my winter clothes. Looks like less than a week until I can switch to lighter items. Are you antsy for the real spring to appear?

Happy Easter

Bloom number 5 opening on Easter Day.

He Is Risen!

Alleluia!