Happy March Everyone! Winter is shutting down! Yahoo!

[vesper]

What a wonderful and glorious time of year! the beginning of the end of winter.

Yahoo! Yahoo! I hope everyone has a wonderful March and that nice temperatures bless everyone right away!!

[Yurika]

It's march, but still cold here. Anyway, spring is not far away.

[Kitty77]

Lots of things happening in March, St. Patrick's Day. Day Light Savings Time change on March 10th and Easter.

[Natalka]

You're lucky to be in the south where spring seems to come earlier!

Glad it's on its way:

[coupon girl]

yep cant wait for spring -i have a shower in march and a wedding in may -looking forward to them-they are a nice light in my dark past month

[i_forget]

Just checked the weather network....going to be consistently above 0 for the next 2 weeks during the day!

Now that is something to YAHOO about!

[Shwa Girl]

Spring? Yes. Time to start planting my herb seeds (3 packs/$1).

[Frugal Lisa]

Spring? Yes. Time to start planting my herb seeds (3 packs/$1).

I was about to say the same thing!! I need to get my seedlings growing!!

[Patty Smyth]

You're lucky to be in the south where spring seems to come earlier!

Glad it's on its way:

Yup that's about what it looks like here BUT I still count March as the beginning of the end. They predict fairly mild temps here for the next 2 weeks hovering around freezing give or take during the day. Doesn't help that we got 15 cm yesterday but what the heck. I can feel the rumbling of the tulips trying to fight their way up through the snow

I can't wait , Kiera and I planted about 400 tulips in the fall.

[Natalka]

For sure, Patty, it's all positive now - we still might get a good ole spring snowstorm, but it's not going to get to -30 or lower any more!

Gosh, you must be so eager to see those tulips - it will be SO awesome to see them!

For us on the prairies, spring is really here when we see crocus

[Natalka]

Oh, my gosh, I'm SO happy right now! The talk of spring flowers got me a'googling - and I finally found the English name of flowers we have growing here. My husband knew the name in his language, but I've never been successful before finding the proper name of them, even though I've found images online from Serbia.

When we moved here, not long after my husband had found some of these creeping through someone else's garden through the fence into the alley, and replanted them in our yard - they come up first in the spring and don't last for long, they are very tiny and on thin stems, but the fragrance is out of this world - SO sweet, so fresh!!! I pick bunches of them and just keep sniffing them all day long right under my nose!
Drawback - they spread and are pretty invasive... but don't last long.



lat. Viola odorata; serbian: ljubičica

I should have known they were of the viola family, duh! Dog violets look similar, but don't have the scent.
Of violas, Johnny jump-ups are my fave!

Sweet violets, Bedding Violas and Pansies are all classified as "violas". Sweet Violets descended from the European wild sweet violet, Viola odorata.

[jasperandchar]

we got a huge dump of snow here and after seeing the patio furniture at WM I got a smile on my face

[Patty Smyth]

Love grape Hyacynths also

[Patty Smyth]

[vesper]

Groooooooovvy!