Things are Blooming - Is this really February?

Well it is almost the end of February but here in the Mid-Valley things are blooming, budding and thinking it is spring! Early daffodils are up along with other bulb type flowers but it varies from place to place. Even in West Salem a few hundred feet of elevation and the relative position to the sun makes some already blooming and others like at our house are still busting through the soil!

Trees are starting to bud quite nicely and most of the red maples are getting ready to start having leaf production. Is this to early? We have been so mild the last several weeks that I think it has the plants confused and maybe some of us humans.

So that got me looking through some shots in the storage bank and came across some from April 2009. I was walking around near the capital on the 'capital mall' and took a few shots of the cherry blossom's and how the falling petals make it kind of look like snow in the grass. Also one of the fountains was doing its thing at the South end just across from the capital. This was April of last year and by the date on my shots this same time frame is only 6 weeks away!

Enjoy the photos and I truly am going to try and blog a little more as a source questioned why I am not doing much here! Told them I was a bit lazy, but will start to step it up.

Thanks for reading.

Tim