Quote of the day: “Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Sunken Garden at Como Conservatory Last Year – A new offering in my Etsy Store
The weather this spring continues to amaze and surprise people all over the United States. I heard today that Arkansas received its first snow ever—today, May 3! Yesterday parts of Minnesota got record snowfalls of 12 inches or more. Fortunately the storm was east of the Twin Cities so we have no snow on the ground in the western suburbs of Minneapolis.
Our cat Gracie, is very confused. When the weather was in the 70’s last week her appetite was way down, but as soon as the cold weather returned, so did her appetite. It’s as if she’s preparing for another long, cold winter. All day she’s been jumping up in my lap as I work at the computer, bugging me and try to get me to feed her.
We had snow flurries off and on all day today, but fortunately the snow melted about as fast as it fell.
I had planned to visit the Como Conservatory last week to enjoy the spring flowers there. Life conspired to delay my trip until this week when I learned that the sunken garden spring flower display had ended and the sunken garden was closed to install the summer flower show. So, no trip to Como Conservatory today! Soon I’ll go and take in the summer flower show.
Instead of braving the weather outside today, I finished up tasks related to my upcoming photo exhibit, creating price lists, display cards with the titles of the photos, and getting ready to pack up the framed photos in boxes.
Despite the cold weather, the leaves on the trees are starting to bud out and some big trees down the road have already bloomed (at least I think that’s what all the debris in the street is from). Nature is truly amazing.
As soon as it warms up a bit I’m off to some of my favorite wild flower haunts to see which wild flowers are blooming already. It seems that they shouldn’t be blooming yet, with the weather. I’m betting that next week we’ll see most of the spring ephemerals strutting their stuff. Wild plants that manage to survive year after year in Minnesota have to be hardy and able to handle weather extremes.
Snowflakes Fell But Didn’t Accumulate
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