While I Wait For Spring

Started bringing some of the hyacinths up from the basement and hopefully they'll bloom. They're pale colored but will green up in a few days. 

In bloom in the house. Got to have blooms during the winter. We still have 9 weeks left. I'll be patient.

The palm that sat here during the fall is now in my bedroom closer to a light source, the window. Maybe...it'll survive.

Amaryllis Marilyn has one flower stalk left. The others are finished and have been cut. The bulbs are now making foliage and storing energy for next fall.

I've been sowing seeds. So far pelargoniums, vinca, foxgloves, snapdragons, violas/pansies, echinaceas, lupins, petunias, coleus, gazanias, and impatiens. For my region, it's also time to sow lettuce and broccoli. When I do start them I'll also start some kale and hot peppers.

Sweet potato vine is hanging in there.

I started reading the first book in this series yesterday. Bought these many years ago from the thrift store. I have too many unread book and now books on Kindle. Some I pay for but many are free fro download.

The princess says hello sitting on her blankie my aunt sent her from Georgia.

Yesterday for the first time since this became her home she sat right in front of the fire. Actually too close. Thought she might become a ball of fire. But she realized she was too close and moved back. Her visits on the porch since the extreme cold have been brief. I think I'll join her now and take a nap.