SPRING 2023, WEEK 4: The tulip magnolia is back! Last week it looked dead after the freeze; now it's blooming again. It'll probably not fill out, but the new flowers suggest it will thrive again.

Now on to the usual, the view from the deck.

The tulip magnolia is there, but this picture was taken a day earlier and had only one tiny blossom. We go next to the fire pit for which it's a summer day (without leaves yet).

And now we make our first summer 2023 trip down to the pond. This picture is taken from our dock, looking roughly north.

And this one is from the other side of the pond, looking back toward the house. It's 112 steps back up the slope to the house from the dock.

All the green is pine trees; all the deciduous trees have not yet begun to bud. Here's our creek, fed from the pond. You'll probably never see it again this year as the brush is already beginning to fill in. It'll disappear into grass, weeds, and low brush soon

And finally we leave you with our lonely forsythia,still waiting for the trees o blot out the valley below us.

Until next week then, while we wait for the dogwoods to blossom. It'll be soon, maybe as early as tomorrow.