Despite the fact that it snowed three feet in parts of New England, spring is definitely on the rise and the daylight is growing longer. And with that comes the hope for a better and brighter day ahead despite the gloominess brought by news and doom-scrolling on the web.
“Man is, by nature, optimistic. Otherwise, we’d eat our young.” – John Patrick.
This is a picture of one of the orchids in my yard from a while back, but it’s the closest I can get to a spring bloom for now.
We also had more than a foot of snow and high winds here in the UP; there were widespread power outages and we ended up going 43 hours without electricity. We have a wood stove so we could stay at least somewhat warm but had also just received baby chicks that have to be kept warm so they lived in a cage next to the wood stove for a while…