What's Up?

Lots of things! Tulips (pictured) have poked their heads up, Columbine (pictured) is up all over the place, Crocus have come up in lots more places since the first little tiny one bloomed, Daffodils are everywhere, with one showing a nice bud, the Narrow Leaf Cattails are sprouting in the pond, Forsythia is about to pop (some was brought inside and has flowered) a little Primrose bought at Trader Joe's is showing green as well as some buds, and Song Sparrows and various other birds are singing when I go out to pick the paper up out of the driveway.

Just back from grocery shopping- stopped by our local park (Eakin, on Accotink Creek) and heard my first Spring Peepers of the year.

A further note on the Columbine- the one pictured is a domesticated blue one. These originally appeared with some Royal Lily hostas given to us by my parents. They bloomed in and amogst the hostas for several year until the hostas crowded them out. By that time the columbine had already migrated further out into the yard, so there's now far more than we started with.