Winter is holding on tight here in central Pennsylvania. We’ve had a day or two each week that pushes above freezing and then we might get a cold rain or a few snow flurries. You can tell that Spring is holding its breath waiting for enough sunshine a few days in a row. I walked around the yard to see if anything was trying to sprout.
The grass is pretty brown. the dogwood trees out front are still holding on tight.
The Red Bud trees are not waking up yet.
Bert has used over half of the wood pile but it has kept us toasty warm all winter.
The Butternut trees on the hill are resting.
In the garden, the lavender did very well over the winter. The plants are a silvery green and look just as they did last fall!
The Echinacea is slumbering just fine.
Now…the most exciting thing is the forsythia! The buds are looking yellow and should be the first flowers to pop! I’m so looking forward to the color around the property.
The most fun while we wait for spring is checking Bert’s trail camera to see the animals around our bird feeder at night. We knew we had 4 to 5 deer visiting every night but we also saw an unusual skunk around the Red Bud trees and the bird feeder.
We now have pictures of the all white skunk with a huge fluffy tail as big as its body!
We also have a regular skunk visiting.
Amazing to watch the deer and skunks around the tree at the same time. They aren’t bothered by each other.
We’ll consider these pictures of “nothing happening” as the baseline as we get into gardening season, 2025. These are the pictures BEFORE we plant! Haha! We will pay attention for the skunks at night…wouldn’t want to interrupt their dinner hour!
Dear Aunt Mary. Thanks for this post. I love the pictures and the prose (which to me, it almost reads as poetry)! It’s a window into my old stomping grounds of Pennsylvania…
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