michigan weather...

I didn't know which blog to post this to, but I guess it's about outside so it should go in the garden blog.

Yesterday I spent a good couple two-three hours working in the yard; sweeping out the garage and cleaning up some of the flower beds.  The temp was pretty nice in order to work outside - it was close to 60 degrees at times.

This is the before shot...but I didn't think to get an after :(

A little sowbug killer spider that I unearthed while removing leaves.

It's not like we don't still have snow on the ground up here.  Yep, we live "up north" and we still have plenty of snow on the ground in areas that are in the shadows.  Yesterday, I only worked the areas that didn't have snow anymore. 

All the snow we still have + a little layer from today's snow.

And then today...!  Today I went to the movies with my friend Deepa.  While driving there it was a near white-out!  When I got home from the movies, I had to shovel my driveway and throw all that snow into the flower beds that I just clean up yesterday!

I was thinking bunny, but I believe these are squeaky (squirrel) tracks.

Yesterday 60's, today 30's and snow.

One of the beds I cleaned yesterday.

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Also, I had noticed some tire tracks in the snow on our driveway when I came home from the movies, but didn't pay any attention to them.  I thought someone had just pulled in to turn around or something.  Finishing up shoveling at the bottom of the driveway by the road is when I saw that someone had just recently dug a hole in my flower bed along the driveway.  Kinda big hole.  I guess it was the person who belonged to these tire tracks.  Curious.  Now I'm wondering if the person who did this has anything to do with the gas company's project that is supposed to start tomorrow.  Maybe checking to see if the ground is still frozen...or...did someone just steal some of my tulips? 

This is the hole that someone dug just before I got home from the movies.

crocus in an ice storm...

My crocuses were flowering over a week ago already - then we got hit with another snow storm on Tuesday night and this time it was a very heavy snow, mixed with rain.  We enjoyed being dumped on an additional 4" that night...I mean in addition to all the snow that we've received this year already.  The fact is, most of the snow had already melted and we were feeling like spring was just around the corner...and not just the official start of spring, but springtime temps and blooming flowers and all.  But no, Mother Nature had other ideas and realistically, we can pretty much count on the possibility of snow for nearly another month.

Anyway, I took the first picture on March 18th and the second picture this evening...a couple of days after the snow/ice storm.  I really thought my crocuses were done for...but as it turns out, I was wrong.

And then my favorite...

snow...

btw, snowed 2 more inches overnight.  I'm kinda done with so much snow.

snow...

I forgot to mention that after all the snow had melted, and we were finally seeing the ground again - we had upwards of 9 inches fall between Sunday and Monday.

what the garden looks like these days...

we are 10 days behind...

Yesterday, quite by accident I noticed some tulips coming through the soil.  I wanted to post the pic so that people wouldn't think I'm a big fat liar.

This morning we woke up and it was snowing...still is.  I'm really happy I took the shot yesterday, cuz now they are under 4 inches of snow.  I took my ruler out just now and measured.  I'm debating on what time today I'll start up the snow blower.

There are two schools of thought; wait til the snow stops and you only have to blow once - OR - blow now and the next time you blow, it's easier cuz there's much less snow.