Showing posts with label crocuses bloom in Lexington KY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crocuses bloom in Lexington KY. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2014

First Flowers of 2014??

Steve Sanders sent me this photo of the first crocuses of the year. The photo was taken in Lexington, Kentucky:

Crocuses peaking out--Lexington, Kentucky
This seems like a pretty aggressive, mean thing to do. Well I looked outside my house and look what I saw! The first pink dogwood (or is it flowering crabapple?), growing right out of a snowdrift in my front yard! What a surprising miracle!

How do you explain this?

Someone guessed that these are cheap plastic flowers I thrust into the snow bank. O ye of little faith!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Spring Torture--from Lexington, Kentucky

My normally wonderful brother- and sister-in-law, Steve and Sue Sanders, sent a photo of blooming crocuses seen in their neighbors' yard in Lexington, Kentucky. Meanwhile we are still under a blanket of snow. Crocuses aren't going to be seen in Northeast Ohio any time soon!

Here is their version of Spring Torture: