spring – Jessamyn Tuttle

early spring

It’s been weirdly warm in our part of the world, hellebores and minor bulbs shooting out of the ground with alarming rapidity. Time to get out the macro lens.

I always love this moment in mid-January when it starts to feel like spring. Never mind that we will certainly have five more months of gray, rainy weather; there are hellebores and cyclamen and violets and snowdrops and sweet box and witch hazel and the first shoots of daffodils! Every year I have to goContinue reading “signs of spring”

spring colors

Because when the sun shines in spring and the garden leaps into bloom, you just have to go out with the camera. In between weeding sessions, of course.

happy spring!

Happy first day of spring! Admittedly, it’s not looking like spring yet up in the mountains – we just crossed the pass this weekend and it was still very wintry. But at home in my garden, things are beginning to happen. Hellebores, chionodoxa, hyacinth, early daffodils and muscari are all in bloom, the pussywillow catkinsContinue reading “happy spring!”