on thursday we got six inches of snow. the last two days gave us 70 degrees fahrenheit. we don’t know what to do with ourselves. but the ferns do.
emergent fiddlehead fern
saint paul, minnesota
ice-out is within sight and turtles will be emerging from their muddy hibernation soon. living as we do on a lake called turtle lake, i wish we saw more living turtles each year, and not merely the various shells they leave behind.
baby painted turtle shell, snapping turtle egg shells, adult painted turtle carapace
saint paul, minnesota
with winter acting like a nightmare tenant, ignoring his increasingly hostile eviction notices, i decided to go and buy a little spring today. i now have a beautiful cherry blossom mess on my kitchen counter, which is some consolation, but not complete consolation, for the wet snow quilting the forest duff outside my kitchen window.
cherry blossoms
saint paul, minnesota
with a blanket of snow re-covering anything with any color in our landscape, i turned to my desk full of spare parts, and spent the afternoon making an assemblage of assemblages. six pretty little frankensteins.
six trees assembled from mid-april bits
vadnais lake, saint paul, minnesota
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Yikes – snow?! Enough with snow, we all deserve spring! :-)
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the most recent “final snow of the year” rolled in from the north on thursday night. the next morning, when i looked northward toward the lake, all my tree trunks looked like tree trunks. when i looked southward, all the north facing tree trunks looked like divided highways with painted white median stripes down their centers.
snow painted tree trunk
saint paul, minnesota
This picture is completely amazing, mesmerizing in fact – and the feeling you evoke is so true! No fiddleheads here yet, but I found five tiny maple sprouting seeds yesterday, in the shadow of an hydrangea :o)
I know that fiddlehead ferns are edible but the not the fuzzy ones so I’ve never paid much attention to these. Thanks for this great photo, it gives me time to gaze upon its intricate beauty.