the penultimate day of february...

it is warmer...

so while the onions are still green...

and more berry plants are escaping the snow...

there are other lines of evidnece pointing to a nascent spring out there...these clusters of buds...

will become these in a month or so...

and these...

are determined to become these...

still...april is a crafty month...cold hardy only until mid-may...we wait on the aspragus and the "in my own sweet time" mooseberry.