We have been having a beautiful spring here in Indiana. Temperatures have been in the 60s with lots of sun and very few soggy, rainy days.
With a lot of help from Lisa, we have trimmed our front bushes
and mulched the stepping stone garden. This year I've had some really lovely tulips and daffodils blooming among the stones. Some years they are lush and full like this year, while other years I only get a few blooms.
Out at the barn, the pastures have been growing up and turning a beautiful green.
It's been quite a while since I had to worry about ice and snow on the lane to the new barn. But this is Indiana where winter often has one last huzzah, and boy howdy did it smack us down yesterday.
The clouds began rolling in from the west after lunch
and soon large, heavy flakes began falling from the sky. Those lovely flower covered trees soon began to bend under the weight of the snow building up on their blossoms.
It snowed heavily all afternoon while the temperature kept dropping.
Every time I would let Pepper out to do her business, I could see the snow accumulating more and more. Soon the flowers in the stepping stone garden were beginning to droop.
My tulips are a casualty from the storm.
There's a beauty in them still, but I know that when the snow melts, they will not rebound.
My daffodils suffered the same fate as the tulips.
I wish now that I had cut some of them and put them in a vase before the snowstorm hit.
The roads this morning are deceptive - they look clear but they are covered in ice, enough so that a bridge here in town had to close. Luckily temperatures are supposed to rise above freezing later today and I'll be heading out to the barn after they do.
With a forecast for 80s next week, hopefully this truly was winter's last punch.
