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Thankful Thursday: The Still Here, Part Deux Edition
My nine-year-old daffodils survived all this:

They are bowed, but not broken:

Hooray for resiliency! Hooray for prevailing! Hooray for Laurie Halse Anderson and her freakishly-tough bulbs!
Thankful Thursday: The Dan Quayle Edition
Allow me to explain.
It’s February and I’m longing for spring when flowers bloom.
So I went to last year’s photos and found this clematis:
“Perfect,” I thought. “I’ll post it as Thankful Thursday: The Looking Forward Edition.”
But then I wanted to also include a quotation about the future,
so I searched for something eloquent to match my lovely flower.
And I came up with this:
“The future will be better tomorrow.” ~ Dan Quayle
A keeper, for sure, because not only am I longing for spring, I’m in desperate need of
laughter. But I won’t say anything more about that because as a wise man once said:
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.” ~ Dan Quayle
Good News / Bad News
Good news: Spring is here!
Bad news: That 11-degree-below-zero freeze we had last November killed a bunch of spireas, sumacs, and possibly the cherry tree.

Good news: Spring is here!
Bad news: The bind weed is back with a vengeance.

Good news: Spring is here!
Bad news: It’s been so rainy the past week it feels more like Alaska than Colorado.

Last-Chance Daffodils?

Yesterday was 78 degrees but the weather people said today’s high would be 47 with snow/rain later. I realized I should get a photo of these brand-new daffodils before the snow got them. Sure enough, when I was out snapping pics a gust of wind blew in and the snow began to fall.
Vinca
Look what I found blooming beneath my deck?
That’s right – call me Vinca.



