Tomatoes, basil and cucumbers are all up and looking good for babies! The pepper seeds have yet to make an appearance. I need to stop giving them a hard time for being lazy. I’ve been told negativity will stunt their growth.
See? Lazy pepper seeds!! Lazy!!
This afternoon we’re going to plant peas, lettuce and swiss chard in the garden. Then we’ll wait until the end of April and plant the onions, and then we have to wait until the end of May to transplant our seedlings and plant the other things that need to wait for no danger of frost. It may still snow overnight here for another six weeks.
No hummingbirds yet. Tree Swallows are gathering nesting materials for the box on the garden fence. So far nobody is admiring the two nest boxes we relocated. We’ve been seeing Wild Turkeys in their silly season with the males all completely puffed up and trying to impress the ladies. And lots of deer in the yard, but no fawns yet. That’s another couple of months away before the fawns show up.
Saturday we went for a walk by the creek.
None of the deciduous trees or brush have leaves yet, and so the area under the heavy trees seems brighter than usual. And it was a little easier to walk around. We still need to do some trail clearing by the creek. Since there won’t be cattle running around making a mess, we’re going to be more inclined to do that sort of work by the creek this year.
Wouldn’t it be neat to build a little suspension bridge over the creek, between the large trees on either side?
It’s really wet on the left side of the picture. The ground was almost marshy. There are two seeps of water running down the hill, making it very wet and mushy. This was as far as we went down the creek, as a result. We’ll need to wait until the ground dries before we proceed further. We have another couple hundred yards of creek to explore on the new property.
It’s not enough flow to make it qualify as a spring. It’s just ground water from the melting snows and seasonal.
It was hard to move around in a few places. This was another really marshy bit from the seeps up the hill.
It’s so nice by the creek. The water is really loud at the moment without leaves to soften the sound. No birds singing yet. The Pacific Wrens aren’t back yet. Soon, though.