Happy day! After all that cold weather... the camellias are blooming.
First the bright scarlet one opened...
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Yes, I am aware that 'technically' it isn't 'spring' yet.  But today the weather is warm (upper 70s) and the sun was shining.  My camellias in front of the house have begun to open.  I was worried I had lost all the buds to that horrid Polar Vortex cold snap...but no, the first bright scarlet made its appearance this morning.  It makes it somehow ( Read more... )

...which fairly well describes the way this day...this week! has gone ( Read more... )

A month into the new year...where has it gone ( Read more... )

Many things to report...nothing of earth shattering importance.  You are warned ( Read more... )

Looked out my bedroom window when I awoke, and there it was.  A crimson circle, just outside the pane, bright against the misty grey of a drizzly morning.  I stared at it for a bit, momentarily puzzled by this long-lost joy during the long, unending wintery months of the Northcoast, but there it was.  A camelia.  The first bloom of the new year. ( Read more... )