SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 9: Last week, the leaves didn't come. This week, the leaves still didn't come. Either Mother Nature woke up late, or I started too soon. I blame Mother nature. It's been a rather gray day, cloudy, cool and with on and off (mostly off) rain, so I wasn't anxious to take the (long enough) walk to the pond.

Here's the usual pond picture. The small stuff is greening up nicely, but as you can tell the hardwoods are still struggling to wake up this year.

Next is my standard fire pit picture, and again the hardwoods are not cooperating with spring yet. The brush (at least on my lot) has been mostly cleared, but the neighbor's house is no longer visible as his trees/brush fill out.

This last picture is our friendly dogwood on the south side of the house. Its flowers are mostly gone now, replaced by leaves. In the background, the hill on the opposite side of the creek is still mostly gray.

Until next (hopefully greener) week then....