Slight Detour: Dirty Dog Days of Spring, Et. Al.

Welcome to Spring.

Besides the promise of eventual green grass and leaves on the trees, there are some dog aspects to spring.

One is the multitude of doggie logs which have hibernated at various levels of the snow pack.

As the pack melts, the logs emerge. One of my regular spring cleaning chores involves a pick and a lot of walking, picking up those logs and flinging them over the fence to the barnyard.

The other dog aspect of spring is "Dirty Dog Daze," which means almost daily baths for busy Border Collies. Takes only a couple of seconds of running barnyard fence line for Bridie and Liam to be "bath ready."

Happily, they both don't mind being hosed off, and they truly love the towel-off stage.

Lots of both in the days ahead.

Beauty in the Ugly.

Not exactly a postcard print, but still pretty to my eyes.

One of yesterday's projects involved picking up branches pruned from both bushes and raking soggy wet the soggy, wet but bare surface around the bushes.

Maybe after today's sunshine and tomorrow's, that grass may brighten up.

And, then, let the beauty of spring begin.

These are guinea pig plants---pansies and 'maters.

Photo taken this morning, and I'm thrilled to report that the first of my potted plants survived the night in the greenhouse.

Our resident robins have been hanging out around the place for about a week now.

I love listening to their beautiful bird music in the early morning hours.

During my travels around town yesterday, I spent a few minutes at Evans Bros. Coffee House, viewing the exhibit below.

My photos of the exhibit focus on the segment about the historic Elsaesser house, which was occupied for several decades by our family friends, Fats and Ardis Racicot.

In fact, our dad Harold Tibbs lived there before he and our mother were married.

Thought I'd share some of what I saw in my brief time at the exhibit. It will be on display at the coffee house for the rest of March.