SPRING 2023, WEEK 3: It's been a very cold week for spring, with freezing weather every night, so maybe it's back to square one for this year. Here's the usual pond view, with the tulip magnolia full of frozen - and dead - flowers. The tree will survive but the flowers won't.

The yard is still looking good as we've had plenty of rain, but the trees, well, hopefully they haven't begun to bud out yet.

Finally, since it had already flowered and begun to leaf out, the hardy forsythia.

And that's it for this week -- too dang cold for a trip down to the pond. Next week, maybe.