The “milkweed river” swath stands out from the newly greened grass. The roundish area in front of the round sculpture was the burn pile. When the pile is well built, everything burns so much more thoroughly and efficiently. After burning, I raked wood chips over it, so it’ll be ready for cover crop seeds. Logs in the foreground await a second life as edging.
My husband miraculously felled these dead red pines, without harming any other plants in the border, all in about 3 hours.
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) is quite beautiful coming up, and is an important plant not to step on for a number of reasons, the least of which is that it could be stinky!
It’s true – amphibians travel between the vernal pools nearby here. At night, you see them frantically hopping across the road in the headlights, so it’s a good idea to go slow.
A “split polar vortex” is evidently the weather phenomena responsible for the recent spate of storms.
The vernal swamp area between our pond and the neighbor’s pond has formed.
What the west side of the pond looked like in February of 2012!
…actually, it’s more of a NW direction. At any rate, the view looking the other direction across the slope also affords some color.
Actually, it’s more of a SE direction. Looking over the slope, even at the end of February, still sports a number of different colors.
The area near the new Nannyberry bed is developing its yearly spring water cover.
