How’s that for a great title? Maybe we could make a movie, “The Farmer Battles Pond Scum.” And all the sequels where he gets rid of it again, and again, and again….
Our pond is spring-fed and looked lovely until we had a flood that got high enough to seep water into the pond. It was a bummer watching the dirty water swirl into the pond.
Time keeps on marching, and here we are in April! Good Friday, with the Easter weekend coming up.
Around here we don’t have anything special planned. Some of the family, however, is spending Easter in Paris.
February is past, and although spring isn’t officially here, the signs are everywhere. The trees are throwing out pollen by the bucket load, and many spring flowers are in bloom. We’ve had daffodils for weeks , and the forsythia is also blooming. (That’s buttercups and yellow bells to many people, particularly here in the south.)
The Farmer and I went for a walk in the woods last weekend, and could see a lot of trillium up and in bud. I only saw one Trout Lily in bloom, but the woods will be carpeted with them shortly.
Earlier in the week we got lots of rain, so when I went out to do morning chores, the road below us looked like this: