thirty degree ( fahrenheit ) drop

something approaching a half inch of rain in the past two days...

and a thirty degree drop in temperature from yesterday's sunny seventy hasn't had that much of an impact out back...

i did take advantage of the weather yesterday to turn some beds to disrupt the creeping charlie...today seems like a less auspicious garden work day...

the cold hardy out there don't seem to mind however...the winter rye is about a foot tall and the winter wheat is not trailing by very much...very green and at home in the temperatures...

there are forty-one ramps up in various stages of development...

pleasingly the younger asparagus has evaded the rabbits that visit in increasing numbers...

even more pleasingly the elder of the asparagus plants has finally decided to put in an appearance...

while the clusters of blooms on the russian olives are providing the mason bees with somewhere to work this early in spring...the season is coming along and, seemingly, will be confined to the back yard...another summer of working on becoming a native there.