@Grams, and BG. how is the weather up there?.
still in the oven down here. I hope the snow is now gone.
PCY
Hello there
I just found this thread again...this time I got the Alert ...last time when you asked on April 6th I did not get any Alert. Sorry.
Well I am happy to say that things are brighter. :)
It isn't "spring" here yet. No buds, leaves or green grass showing...
There are still high piles of snow around...but our front yard which faces south-west, is free of snow...but the back, north-east still has about a foot of snow. The sunshine is lovely, but the wind is chilly, blowing off the mountains which are obviously still snow-covered.
I am pretty sure that we wont get many flowers this summer...so hard on the bees and butterfly's.

The ground is still frozen, and it will take a month to thaw out enough for the plants to put their heads above ground.
So, summer with flowers? We shall see...
I am not hopeful that the snow falls are over. Poor poor animals ..we have deer coyotes and jack rabbits around here. I am betting that many must have died trying to survive 7 months of snow.
I am sure you are having a lovely spring there...which is what we up here would call 'summer temps'.
Every blessing...Helen.