Spring has sprung!

Well, “sprung” may be a bit of a strong word.  Spring has shown up.  Kind of.  The robins came back, if only because they’re programmed to.  We still had snow on the ground last week.  But at the moment the small amounts of warmth and sunshine that we’ve been graced with have produced soft buds on the raspberry canes, tiny, grassy stalks of pungent chives poking out of the leaf litter and an abundance of bunnies, which last year ate our peas down to stumps before they ever had a chance.  Hmmm…

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