SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 11: Short post this week, since Spring is here, only the frostbitten trees don't believe it. Here's the usual pond view, looking out this week rather than down:

Compared to last week, the hardwoods are filling out, but slowly, oh so slowly. We're a good 3-4 weeks behind the normal schedule for spring.

Our neighbor Farmer Brown (our pseudonym for a gentleman not too far away whose summer vegetable garden is always spectacular) has just today broken ground tilling for his garden, a good 2-3 weeks later than normal. Strange spring, this....

Here's street south outside our house, looking slightly upward to see that the trees along the road have just barely started to leaf out. Another week, maybe two, before their foliage is fleshed out. Street north isn't quite as bad -- it's mostly softwoods which have full foliage to give the road our classic tunnel look. Still, the hardwoods that form the 'tunnel' at our end are well behind schedule.

Finally, another pond view showing the hardwoods down along the pond beginning to recover.

Till next week, then.