I follow a lot of different growers, herbalists and nature websites and it has been hard to see all these baskets of lovely wild greens being harvested and eaten and even flowers blooming while this is my yard – ice so thick on the bird feeder it is weighting it, activating the squirrel proof mechanism that keeps it closed. I keep chipping away at it and am putting extra out on the table.
Everyone is desperate.
The spark of spring only exists in the wood stove just now but the one in my heart is smoldering as I stand in amazement at the variety of life and am beyond thankful that I don’t have to live outside all the time. Thankful for my family, my warm bed and for my many aromatherapy blends and salves which carry me through while I wait for better weather.
Ice covering everything
Various Finches
Red Wing Blackbirds
Even the fox is hungry enough to come closer before the storm
finches
Arnica, crowded and ready to be outside.
All babies potted up now and much happier but leaves little room for anything else until Spring comes around.
I was looking forward to this sorrel I found last week but……..
And definitely some of the Nettles coming up all around