Here are some photos from earlier in the week. The year is shaping up nicely, though I’m a little worried that the papers are predicting another Beast from the East with temperatures below freezing. My only comfort is that they’ve been reporting on it all winter and it hasn’t happened yet.
The primulas are doing well. As is the blossom. If only the photography was up to scratch.
Here we have some landscaping features – a newly donated chimney pot, the newly painted table and the newly painted log. There’s a lot of new stuff happening in the garden just at the moment, as you may have guessed from the unimaginative titles.
Finally, I’ve thrown in a magpie. I like magpies, and they sit still long enough for me to get a shot.
Magpie – so black it’s actually blue in places
Very nice shot of the magpie.
It was a very photogenic magpie.
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An excellent selection. I am really bad at getting magpies to sit still
Maybe yours are quicker than ours. 🙂
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I love primroses. The idea that they just grow in ditches in England is amazing.
🙂 I have to admit I just take them for granted.
Nice pictures! Magpies are a beautiful bird. Hope the Beast from the East fizzles out.
Me too! They are claiming it may go as low as minus 5 C, which is a bit nippy for April. 🙂
Snowing here. Six inches are predicted. Spring sure is slow in coming this year. Even for Maine.
I admire your fortitude. Six inches of snow in spring must be hard to take. Good luck with it!
In April, it is hard to take. Most unwelcome. The good thing, though, is that April’s warm weather will soon melt the snow.
When you say “melt the snow” is that the same as “produce mud”?
You got it. And the deeper the freeze, the deeper the mud.
And I used to think Maine was such a nice place…
Not in early spring. 😉
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I never see magpies here and am unsure if they are native or not–it’s worth checking, if I want to know.
We actually had a real snow Friday night, and that was a bit of a surprise, but it went away by the next day. Cute heart on the log–
You have a slightly different species to ours in the USA, but very similar. It keeps to the western side.
https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/bkbmag1/introduction
I see. Thanks.
I hope that you are right and that the beast doesn’t re-appear this year. Once is enough.
We’ve had a very easy winter compared to yours.