Update: Crocus, March 4

Well, after a day of sunshine and sub-zero temperatures, I could dig through the snow and pine boughs to reveal..... OK, they're not blooming. They're not actually even budded, yet (except maybe one of them). BUT, they are there. They are up above the frozen ground. I took that picture using the flash on my camera because there isn't quite enough light in the evening to capture them, but even though it's -4 and that's the hottest it's been all day, those sweet little crocuses are doing their damndest to herald the spring.

AUGH!

So, no ... I don't know whether or not the crocuses are up today. I probably won't be able to lift the boughs from the frozen ground until Sunday at the earliest.

But I choose to believe that the little dears ARE up. I choose to believe that, under the pine boughs and the snow, they are sensing the longer days and the sunlight and making pretty yellow flowers which will be revealed on Sunday when I finally reach them.

A gal's gotta dream. Especially when the windchill is -22.