The joys of spring awakening...

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richard-in-cincy

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the vesper swallows landed in my backyard today from their spring migration from the south. I went out and all of a sudden there was a symphony of birds, thousands of them, singing and chirping in the trees. And there is nothing like that air-sucking whoooosh when they all take flight, on whatever cue it is, at the same time. It nearly sucks the air out of one's lungs.

I said welcome and planted some more lettuce.

Winter is nearly over!

 
Planted "more" lettuce? It's not nearly that warm here, although I did see my first robin this a.m.

Nice description, Richard. I like to hear the honking of the Canadian geese flying north this time of year!

 
I"m enjoying those sounds too. Robins and chipmunks last week, the ducks in the pool this week.Out

to buy more seed for the migrators. I can hear them, but they're not showing their faces.

Tulips shooting up, crocus, pear tree buds, roses greening. Arugula 5" tall. It's the best time of the year.

It's so fascinating that Martha the duck, carries her memory from July, since we last saw her, about her special learned method of eating from my fingers without nipping me.

 
I got four of my raised beds tilled, and added a composted product

I got shell peas, arugula, parsley, two types of spinach, Lacinato Kale, thyme, sage, Swiss Chard in. Lettuce,will go in soon as will cilantro. I've reserved two beds for tomatoes next month. My regular and garlic chives came up. I had to take out my lettuce that wintered over, but I wanted to start with new....so out it went. I love this time of year.

A resident Blue Jay was screaming at us and I suspect he/she has a nest in a nearby oak. The yellow house finches are back by the hundreds, eating our thistle seed from the feeders.

 
I saw an Eagle flying with a hawk above my house last week. We always have hawks in our bird bath

but I've never seen an Eagle that close.

My new garden: lemon balm spearmint, peppermint, mint, several kinds, sizes colors and shapes of tomatoes, swiss card, mustard, oak leaf lettuce, green lettuce, spring lettuces/mesculun mix, watermelon, parsley, pomegranate tree, fig tree; I have strawberry guava tree seeds that should sprout, I HOPE in 5 weeks. I also have carrots, radishes, cucumber, red onions, sweet onions and scallions,okra, red peppers, a blueberry bush and a kumquat tree...after losing 2 papayas I'm trying to sprout more papaya seeds...

 
Ah spring...Live Oaks are dropping pollen like snow...my eyes are swollen shut, my lungs are

conjested. It's that time of year when we need no artifical temperature environments: no A/C...no furnace....just balmy breezes gently blowing open the sheers and depositing pollen on every surface in the house. Have planted a little Z-pack of antibotics with the gardener's hope that I will soon be able to breathe again.

Spring has definitely sprung in Florida.

 
the Dall Sheep are on the cliffs again behind our house--they have their young on the cliffs

each spring and then disappear to higher ground for the rest of the summer. I always notice them when I look up and I see a snowbank "moving". then I let out a WHOOP---not snow but our neighbors the sheep! Yes, Spring is coming(not yet here for us).

 
when I was on the vessel Bartlett (Alaska Marine Highway) going in to Whittier in the spring

the Captain would announce for the passengers to look on the cliffs for the snow drifts that moved. They are so cool.
And at the same time as we pulled into the dock there, during my after lunch nap, would wake up with yucky, crusty, swollen eyes---the cottonwoods were pollinating.

Hey gotta love spring, around here, am allergic to cedar (pollen and wood) and Rhodys. Not a lot of either in my neighborhood.

Nan

 
I covet your garden!! was surpirsed, when down in the Everglades that there are so many bald eagles.

 
Nan, on the news recently they said Eagles here in Central Florida are putting their nests near

residences, along shorlines mostly. I don't know if it's the power companies or who but someone puts up big platforms along bridges, high light poles, etc. for big birds of prey, mostly, to have a place to nest, since so many trees were removed to build new highways, etc.

My garden is a container garden, so it's not as time consuming as it would be if it were in the ground.

 
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