Welcome to spring!  A time when things just start happening.

One day your field looks like this…

Back field on Sunday

And four days later it looks like this…

Back field today, with Hokie and Hannah

And the yard…don’t even get me started…

They are EVERYWHERE!

I guess it could be worse.  I took a picture of this field on the way to the office.  And no, I didn’t have a couple margaritas for lunch, this is a terrible photographer’s efforts to take a picture of a hill.

Not our farm, thankfully!

Don’t get me wrong.  I actually think it’s beautiful.  But buttercups are really just another dandelion when it comes to pastures and livestock.  That’s why there’s so many–almost nothing eats them.

And I have allergies.  Really bad allergies.   I have no doubt that pharmaceutical companies wring their hands in glee over people like me.  People who should have the good sense to stay inside during pollen season but just can’t help themselves.  People who should close the windows and turn the A/C on so their couches aren’t dusted with yellow every evening when they come in from working outside.  People who are allergic to hay dust, grass cutting dust, and wheat dust, but insist on being farmers.

But there’s more blooming around here to talk about.  For some reason our yard doesn’t hit it’s season until a couple weeks after everyone else around here.  It makes me impatient, but it’s worth the wait when this…

Climbing roses

Turns into this…

Double blooming Lemon Meringue climbing roses

(I’m looking into that strange, moldy leaf spot thing that showed up the other day.  If you have any idea what it is, please let me know!)

And this…

Early columbine

Turns into this…

Blooming giant columbine

God sure knows how to make me smile…

Our first irises of the year!

Now how can you resist being outside with all this going on?