Is this like your snowdrop?

I took the dogs for a walk last evening. The woods closest to us should be left alone (they're in a flood zone where they can't build houses) but the bulk of the area has been scraped on the south end of the property. All of those trees and shrubs just pushed into a pile. I expect them to move to the north end today (goodbye yucca). As we walked across a 2-acre spot the city owns for a future park (they keep it mowed) where the dogs know they can plunge into tall grass and shrubby trees they got more excited--they love that part of the walk and they know when we veer left that is our goal. But we got to the edge of the park lot I stopped and they stood there looking around. They're dogs, they probably don't register loss in the same way I do, but they certainly noticed change. The tall grass they wade into wasn't there and the trees we circle around (don't want to walk under them or you'll get ticks) were missing.

We'd be more careful this time of year anyway, since snakes will be out soon if they aren't already. But now, if we walk around the edge of this biomass miasma we''ll have to lookout for whatever wildlife made it out alive. So maybe we'd better not walk out there. It's not all bunnies and hawks who were displaced. Foxes, coyotes, snakes, cotton rats, skunks, possums, etc. Disoriented critters I don't want to meet nose-to-nose with the girls.

I took some pruning sheers out and trimmed off the dead stuff on top of the pots at the side of the house. I left the dead plants over the winter for the seed supply. This morning I noticed seedlings in my pot that last year held thumbelina zinnias.

SRS