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Sheila Knell's avatar

First, that cake!!! And thank you for another amazing post.

I missed posting last week, so here is my combined list. Hairy bittercress, spring beauties and bluets, a brown thrasher (a bird I never knew was here with a name that sounds more roller derby than beautiful song bird) in black cherry tree, northern spicebush blooming chartreuse and frazzled, first rainy walk that was warm enough to be comfortable, tiny leaves on black cherry trees, sweet cherry blooming, British soldier lichen, ground ivy blooming, hairy wood mint, teasel greens, dock, cut leaf toothwort buds, red dead nettle, barn swallows returned and made good use of all this mud building a new nest, blue bird on nest, dandelion pollen stuffed corbiculae on honeybees, tadpoles, dogwood flowers getting more serious about opening, purple johnny jump ups, a few white, and one yellow, skunk cabbage wide open, tips of a few inner leaves tinged blood red, lilacs small and tight, grape hyacinths.

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Holly Haworth's avatar

Sheila, this is hilarious: "a name that sounds more roller derby than beautiful song bird." I think the brown thrashers are kind of punk rock! And it's beautiful to travel back in time and farther north this way with you. So grateful for all that you notice. Thank you for sharing!

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Sheila Knell's avatar

Thank you! So lovely to be here!

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Kimberly Coburn's avatar

Grateful always for the gifts you give this world 🌱🌸🦫

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Amanda Cather's avatar

Here we are just a little behind you, dogwoods still just opening and redbuds in full raspberry neon. The first warblers are just finding their way north ahead of the massive wave of migration to come. It was cold and then everything bloomed at once, daffodils with violets and forget-me-nots, bloodroot and bluebells.

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Holly Haworth's avatar

As long as the redbuds are still in raspberry neon and the dogwoods are blooming, it's still tender early spring. Lucky!

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James Murdock's avatar

A seasonal delight! Sounds like a lovely birthday. The crow’s poison and lyre leaf sage is blooming down thisaway. The piedmont azalea blooms and the last of the camellias are almost gone. Hopefully the pollen has subsided too.

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