SPRING LEAVES, POST #3: It's been warm and wet over the last week, so there's some progress (finally!) from the foliage. No leaves yet in most of the trees, but they are definitely beginning to bud out. Here's the pond view:

And the house view:

In both pictures, you can see the ground foliage has visibly gotten greener (and thicker), but the trees are much the same -- still mostly bare because the new buds aren't visible yet.

But by next week ....