Spring has sprung!

I bet you thought spring was never going to come to this blog.  Actually spring has arrived and I have been so busy playing outside that I forgot I even had a computer.  Well today is cold, blustery, and snowy so I'm back inside.  My garden is mostly clear of snow with a few small patches left here and there but way too muddy to walk on.  I have cleaned the flower beds on both sides of the path and found a few crocuses but they were too cold to fully open today. 

I have also started making a sweet pea trellis.  Before last year I had a stick fence but it has become a chain link fence and I miss the wall of wood. I am therefore making a small stick fence for the sweet peas to separate the new raspberry patch from the rest of the garden.    

This was the old stick fence.  I used to hang all kinds of things on it.  The red buoy is from Salem, Mass.



 



  Covering most of our land is the mountain alder.  

It is constantly dying and growing anew. Using the dead alder I collected two long posts and many smaller sticks for the fence.  I have nailed the sticks to the posts.  That is as far as I have gotten; it is just too cold outside today. I will show you the final results in a later post.