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signs of spring in early winter or love letters to my frozen friends

Sending good thoughts to those who are covered in snow and ice. (Click through a few times to get to larger images.)

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17 Comments

  1. Brenda says:

    Oh! Beautiful… I like the way you have formatted the photos and the way my eye dances with the colours and shapes… you’re a few weeks ahead of Vancouver, where I lived for a few years in the middle of the last decade, and where early Spring was a gift. Here in Toronto we are a few weeks into our three months of stern Winter proper.

    1. Deb says:

      Thank you! I tried to “arrange” them.

  2. carolee says:

    these are exactly like love letters to those of us in the frozen northeast! it’s been white here for 6 weeks. and cold (a lot of days with temps out of the teens). and windy.

  3. carolee says:

    what i meant to say is a lot days temps haven’t been out of the teens. it’s clear i have some sort of arctic hysteria. save me.

    1. Deb says:

      Soon you will be moldy like the rest of us.

  4. Marvin says:

    Great to see reminders that spring will eventually be here. Our Surprise Lilies sent up shoots in December. They normal begin in winter, but later. I’ll bet they were unpleasantly surprised by our January.

    1. Deb says:

      Oh, yes. I bet they were! My daphne has frost scorches on it’s leaves, but flowers are starting to bud out, too. Seems the hellebores are late blooming. I expect one species in December.

  5. its been snowing and icy here for a month now, so these photos are very welcome. There are signs of a thaw today,

    1. Deb says:

      That thaw must be a relief for everyone, folks and critters, too.

  6. January says:

    Your photos remind us that there is life out there under the ice and snow. :)

  7. Paz says:

    I love this post! Thank you!

    Paz

    1. Deb says:

      You’re welcome! (Thanks for visiting.)

  8. Peter says:

    It’s funny that, this winter, most of the bloggers I see seem to be under ice and snow, us included. So your pictures seem incongruous. Keep the fire burning for the rest of us!

    1. Deb says:

      It is strange, the bubble that is the Pacific northwest.

  9. Liz says:

    Thanks for the reminder to celebrate these signs of spring. it won’t be too long now, at least in Portland.

    1. Deb says:

      You’re most welcome.

  10. Michelle says:

    Oh my. You are so talented, Deb. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful x