Signs of Spring

We've been working in the garden, cutting down the dead parts of the perennials;




Daffodils blooming in the back garden.....



Peony coming up in back garden...




Visitor to back garden...





Globe Willow greening up in front garden...




Flowers we saw on our walk today:

Sagebrush Buttercup - from The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers - "mostly among sagebrush and in open pine woods......Among the first wildflowers to bloom in the spring."




Bent Milkvetch - "dry hillsides and sagebrush deserts. Pursh's Milkvetch common throughout much of the West with flowers varying from cream to deep reddish-purple."



Anyone know what this is?




And Kim and I enjoying ALMOST the first day of Spring....it isn't quite Chimay (which is a GREAT beer, by the way), but it's
close.




Happy Spring, everyone!