Crocuses and snowdrops, oh my!
I spent most of last
week lying on the couch, nursing a cold. While I was otherwise
occupied, spring came. Crocuses! Snowdrops!
I thought it was an
abnormally cold winter this year, but the truth is that the
snowdrop popped up right around the same time it did two years ago and the
crocus is three weeks ahead of last year. Maybe all that snow
actually kept the earth warmer than usual? I think I can get away
with planting a bed of early peas!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Well its good to see someone is enjoying good weather somewhere. The snow has finely melted here in NE Ohio but now we are having a snow storm as I write this comment. WE can always expect to have snow clear into April because lake Erie's water is warm and the air is cold (lake effect). I only wish I had bought property down south somewhere.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I personally think this has been a really ABNORMAL April! April is usually a warm, breezy month with rain and sun-shiny days...this April has been miserable and dreary and COLD and not a lot of rainfall.
This is honestly the first time EVER that I've started to consider that maybe all of that global warming stuff wasn't just scare-tactic media to sell more blue recycle bags...I'm thinking its real and those nasty climate changes are hitting NE Ohio right now - this year!!!