it's been a while....but it has been winter...i was home from work and feeling a bit weary...however i decided to get out in the yard and look around a bit before dark..and along with the asparagus, winter wheat, winter rye, and ramp beds the beds with the strawberries are one of the regular stops..i wasn't expecting very much...the berry plants are robust and green and have clearly come through a difficult ( read cold ) winter with no problem...and that is what i expected to find...green leaves sunning themselves...
i was nosing around and taking a few photos when a bit of white caught my eye...
and it turned out to be three blooms...these are in the south bed which is the sunniest of the lot and so it is not a surprise to find the first blooms here...the rest of the tribe is still greening out around the yard...it is , however, six days earlier than last season...april twenty-ninth was the first sign of blooms last year..is that significant? unknown...it is, for the nonce, just earlier...if they turn up on april seventeenth in 3030 we will have a possible line of evidence on a changing climate...right now all it is is berries a few days earlier.
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