I haven't even gone out to look for daffodils. I am sure some folks have them but they are stubborn bulbs for me. I get snow drops in March, everyone else in the world gets them in February. There are peonies poking up in some yards and people say the trees will bud a month early this year.
Just in time to get their little leaf buds frozen off in the May blizzard me thinks.
But the birds are out and chirping their little hearts out.
Yesterday B and I walked the old trail from Bebo Grove to Shannon Terrace. My that was lovely, warm and sunny with red chipmunks running hither and yon. An eagle in the big trees and chickadees in bushes waiting for a welfare handout.
The creek was brown like tea and very full. Odd for this time of year as there is no way the runoff has started.
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| in the old picnic area of Bebo |
The asphalt pathway was dry and but the red shale path in the deeper spruce woods along the creek was melty, squashy and in parts with dark shade, cold ,with rotting ice on top. Making it lethal to walk on, but to be in the dark woods in the middle of Calgary on a busy weekend and to hear nothing but bird song was worth the cold feet.
