SPRINGTIME 2022, Week 5: We start again with our intrepid forsythia, which has now given up on its flowers to concentrate on leaves.

Next is the usual pond view, which is basically unchanged from last week. The trees are indeed showing signs of budding, but they are still all but invisible in the photos.

The fire pit view is clearly improved as that 80' pine tree is rapidly becoming firewood. The fire pit was largely undamaged, although three cap blocks were crushed and the block surround driven nearly 2" into the ground from the impact. The brush hasn't yet tried to come back, but I'm ready with the brush cutter and RoundUp. The trees are still mostly dormant, though there are occasional signs of waking up.

Finally, the dogwood trees are awake and budding out. We missed the white flowering this year I'm afraid, another casualty of the hard freeze of two weeks ago. We shall see by next week.

Until next week -- maybe pond pictures then.