Well, SRS, not much happening here on the Blue Ridge Mountain in Wes Ginny. Snow drops up an' bloomin' and that's 'bout it. The dafodills are up but several warm days from opening. Problem is that we haven't had too many warm days. Going up to 'round 45 degrees today. Once it hits 60 degrees for three or four days then the spring wildflower show will begin.

I've got a lot of clean up to do because of the unusally cold and snowy winter. I lost one 80 foot tall maple which is going to take several days to cut and split but it's gotta go. Fortunately it fell between beds.

Haven't done much with the veggie garden and won't until is dries out enuff to til up. We don't plant corn because it takes up too much space to grow enuff fir it to pollinate itself. But we get a lot of food out of a 35 X 20 foot space. We buy out tomatoe plants as well our pepper plants. Everything else, 'cept onions, we grow from seed.

I still have the protective covers over all the first year camillias that need to be slowly opened and then removed and reused for next years first year'ers... Along with at least 30 pots of stuff that are in the basement to get planted look like me and Mr. Shovel are going to get reaquainted...

This year is really going to be an important one for us since the wife, the P-Vine, is going be working part time at her favorite nursery, Merrifield Gardens, and also be doing some landscape design consulting on the side... Lucky me, I get to help with the drawing and the composition issues...

That's one thing about wildflowers that I appreciate. They do what they do and don't need much help from us. I'll report on the little guys as they actually stick their heads out...

Come on, 60 degrees.......

Bobert