By Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: TWO GIRLS, TULIPS AND RAINBOWS Sitting in the March sun feels pretty much like falling in love. The chill of winter is gone and that sweet warm sun makes my skin smile. Birds, unseen, chirp in the trees around me. Cars drive past, a lone …
Crabapple in bloom
Our crabapple has burst into song.
Forsythia season
It’s forsythia season. It seems to always bloom during spring break. The first ones in town came out about two weeks ago. Ours started blooming about a week ago.
Spring Rains
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: SPRING RAINS Usually when spring arrives, we feel as if we’ve earned it. By the time we get to March, we’ve had enough of dirty snow, of ice scrapers, of wind chill. But this was a strange winter. It was a little disorienting to …
Grape hyacinths
When I was a youngster, we had grape hyacinths growing in the front yard, in front of the rose bush with tiny pink roses. My mom loved flowers and plants and we had an incredible back yard, which was a garden of green, full of shrubbery and flowers and some pretty good hideout places for …
A bowl o’ Tiger
Now that porch-sittin’ weather is here, one of the hoodlums, either Tiger or Zorro is usually curled up in the hypertufa bowl. It’s a first-come, first-served bowl. Tiger prepares to get comfortable. We got the bowl from our good friend April Buckman who made it. At first we put hens and chicks in it – …
Crocus
The crocus have been out for about 4 days. I just finally got around to photographing them.
Early bloomers
Friday afternoon, I noticed that the daffodils on the south side of the house were breaking open.
Winter, Maybe
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: WINTER, MAYBE We had been slipping through winter with the greatest of ease. This has not been a snow angel kind-of-a-year here in east-central Kansas. To get angel wings fluttering on the ground you need measurable snow, and in December and January that just …
An inch
An inch of snow is our official total here. So far anyway. It’s still spitting out there, but I think that’s more of a freezing drizzle or freezing mist right now. We had enough snow to whiten the ground one day in November – a wet snow with huge flakes, but it was a warmish …
Springtime in January
Go back to sleep, daffodils, it’s only fake spring, not real spring. And, it’s a contraily kind of a day: 7 second video… Contrails. At 12:30 p.m., it’s 62 and mostly clear. Heading up to 69 today.