green machine

 Another huge temperature fluctuation...53 degrees in one night!

This Thursday, it's supposed to go from 85 (day) to 27 (the next night).  Pretty wild.  But I'm loving all the green that's coming back with these warmer days!

Golden Ragwort

From a waking red maple

see the tiny flowers?

American elderberry

bronze fern

common cinquefoil

cutleaf toothwort...the first spring ephemeral!!!

cranefly orchid

a 12-spotted pink lady beetle on birds-eye speedwell

We had some freak snow...again...

...but it stopped after an hour or two and had completely melted by the afternoon.  

We went hiking at one of our favorite places, Bean Blossom Bottoms.  Not a lot of green yet...

...but still plenty to see, including emerging greens!

Finally some exercise for this chonk!

Looking forward to April and a real explosion of color!