we in the upper midwest like to brag about our four distinct seasons: our summers of endless lakeside twilight, our russet autumns full of bonfires and long hikes, and our frigid, beautiful winters. but here’s the truth. we don’t get much spring. sandwiched between ice-out on the lakes and the first farm reports complaining about too much heat and too little rain, there is a strobe flash of pussy willows, red-winged blackbirds, daffodils, and lime-greeen tufts at the tips of balsam branches. and then it’s gone, and everything is green until september. so this morning, i decided to grab a fistful of spring before it disappeared.
pussy willow (willow catkins)
lake vadnais, saint paul, minnesota
so beautiful! this one reminds me of winter even though it’s about spring. here’s to spring.
It’s quite the same here in Montréal :o) except I rarely get to the river in the Spring, so I am happy for this occasion to admire pussy willow up close – and what a gorgeous picture!
Thank You Emmmanuelle! What a treat to have you visiting STILL.
I was just talking to my husband about how I had heard that one definition of a “bio-region” was a shared watershed. That would mean that Minnesota sits on two bio-regions: the Mississippi river watershed, and the Great Lakes watershed. And Montreal, on the Saint Lawrence river, would be part of the Great Lakes watershed. So, in a way, that makes us neighbors :-) Nice to meet you!
Mary Jo