Did the Crocus Croke

Just when you think that Mother Nature is giving you a break from winter she hits you with another snow storm.  Well actually it wasn't so much of a storm as just a nice gentle overnight snow that came straight down covering all the tree branches with a white coating.  It was about an inch on the ground and did provide kind of a winter wonderland but at this point I didn't really care about any more wonderlands.

We have been having some really nice warm (50's and 60's) spring weather and the bulbs and spring flowers have been coming up like crazy.  We have some crocus around the yard that have started to bloom and over at Joan's mom's house there was a solitary daffodil that had bloomed.  I never realized how many they had planted until I was there working in the yard for a couple days cleaning out leaves and sawing up some limbs that the heavy snowfall had broken off a couple of pine trees.  There is a woods on the back of their property with a trail that dad always kept up so that you could easily walk to the back of the property.  They had planted daffodils along each side of the path almost the whole length of it and they were pushing up their leaves and probably will be blooming in a few days.  It should be quite a display of yellow blooms.

Did the crocus croke in the snow?  Below you can see the crocus blooms struggling to stay in the sun in spite of the spring snow coating all around.  Did the crocus croke - no I don't think so because we know that Mother Nature knows best.  The blooms just close up and when the sun comes out they come out again also.

These photos were just taken a couple of days again on March 26th.

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