Signs of Life on the Mountainside

We saw a few crocuses during our mountain walk on Easter Sunday.
These are my favourite flowers. They're pretty and they confirm to me that spring, and a new warm season of life, is well and truly here.

They're properly  known as a Prairie Anemone, Anemone patens, but we know them as crocuses and that's what I call them.

They are here.
And so is spring.

Scenes From Our Front Yard

Spring is in bloom in our front yard.
This is a prairie anemone. It's brief, glorious blossom is nearly over.


Fritillarias.


The nanking cherries are in full flower and this makes the honeybees busy. Warning: enlarge this photo at your own risk.




A wider shot of the nanking cherries along our driveway.





The tulips are in bloom.

Twosday in Bloom

Two prairie anemones in bloom in our front yard two days ago. The green blades are garlic.

Tuesday is rapidly becoming my favorite day. Years ago a psychic fellow told me that Tuesday would “always be my best day” with the message ostensibly coming from my late mother.Whether it did or not is moot, the fact is I get to inflict my latest creations on an innocent world on Tuesdays and that makes me happy.

The rules of the game are put up two sentences that you’ve read and two that you’ve written.

What I read:

Two enlightening sentences about how the heart works from Understanding Electrophysiology Studies from The StayWell Company, copyright 1995, 1999, 2001.
“Too many signals make the heart beat very fast (tachycardia). Or signals may be sent so rapidly and irregularly that the heart muscle sometimes quivers and doesn’t beat at all (fibrillation). (Bolding theirs.)

My two sentences:

“Mrs. Inge Tuckle didn’t pay much attention to the latest upgrades in technology unless it had something to do with her. It rarely did.”

Many, many thanks to the Women of Mystery for the Two Sentence Tuesdays.

From The Front Yard

On Sunday the prairie anemone (Anemone patens) was just opening up to the world.


On Monday the twins were in full flower.

Their lives are short. The blooms only last a few days, but while they are here they bring great joy.