I am so ready.
For mud. For maple. For garden starts in the window.
For warm breezes on bare skin; for bare feet in the wet grass.
I am ready to turn this flock out onto green pastures, to dig in the soil, to get my hands dirty again.
To let my kids out after breakfast and call them back in the afternoon.
I'm ready to sit by the creek, to forage in the woods, to gather flowers from the hillside.
To exhale after this long cold winter.
This weekend the spring thaw began in earnest.
So we tapped our maples, dug out our garden seeds, and started to dream.
No, spring isn't here quite yet, but it's coming.
And we're so ready.
Our maples are tapped and we have a tray of starts on our radiator in the window…we’re so ready, too!
You and me both sister!
we have has tiny amount of mud too! never been so happy to clean mud off of small folks before!
I imagine with all the snow you had that it will get oh so muddy! 🙂
Love your pictures…you did an amazing job capturing the big melt down. Nothing like that here in Denver, but we get isolated days of snow interspersed with lots of warm weather days. That means spring is right around the corner, and like you, I can’t wait to get my hands dirty again. 🙂
As I was watering the chickens this morning and squishing through a disgusting winter’s worth of mud, poop, and food scraps, I thought, oh, maybe I should take a picture of this for the blog. People think keeping chickens is so much fun. And it is. But is is also dirty, especially in March! With 6 dogs, which makes 23 paw prints (one is a tripod), this is my least favorite time of year. I’d just like to skip to late April please with green grass. Great picture of the melting snow water. I tried to capture it the other day and just couldn’t get it.
Great, here in Mexico we have had warm temperatures for a couple of weeks, almost too warm.
I bought Pex tubing last night!!! Can not wait to tap our trees!!! Wish me luck 🙂 Now to find the seed packets…
yes!!!
Found you through the homeschool/unschool bloggers FB page. 🙂
Fabulous photographs!
Loved how you wrote the blogpost.
Thanks for sharing!