This week while dear husband and I were on our daily walk, we had our first sighting of buttercups.... a sure sign of spring in our little corner of the world! In fact, it is such an important event that the person who finds the first buttercup in our area takes it in to the local newspaper office and gets their name in our small town news. It has been several weeks since the first one was sighted, but this was our first. And it is good news....after a long winter!
The buttercups are placed in one of my tiniest vintage bottles, which I love to use as vases. This bottle is only 2 inches tall....the perfect size and scale for the diminutive buttercups. You can see in the background that today is a rainy day, with clouds hanging low on the mountains....
.....but not so yesterday! Yesterday was our first glorious, sunny, warm, short-sleeve kind of day. As I was out pruning my Graham Thomas rose (with my new Felco Pruner) I happened to look down.... and a wee bit of color caught my eye. It was a single violet bloom, surrounded by many tiny purple buds.
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Buttercups and Violets......yup, it's really Spring!
Buttercups and Violets......yup, it's really Spring!