Fun Monday - Spring!

Janis has got Spring on the brain. Our host for Fun Monday asks this of us:

This week's challenge is all about Spring. Here is what I want you to do.....Take a photo of whatever represents Spring to You....and tell us why.

Spring is my time of year. Not my favorite time of year (that would be fall), but I feel a certain ownership of March because that's my birth month. Every year, the season turns - then a couple of days later it's my birthday!

My husband knows me well... When confronted with the "don't get me anything for my birthday" line, he goes and buys me flowers:

And sometimes vegetables:

I go outside and look at our front "flower" bed, which looks brown and overgrown with weeds and dead plants. This year's freezing weather knocked a few of my favorite plants out.

I love working in the yard, but my thumb isn't very green - which is why I really appreciate the things that happen without my help:

The azaleas are beautiful this year and getting a late start. The tea olive is blooming away though and evidence of everything else blooming is all over the leaves.

Funny. Growing up here, I never really noticed or thought about the pollen. Now that I'm over 40, my nose and my head let me know of spring's arrival long before anything else does.

As of today, I am READY!

Aren't these cool? Bamboo fabric gardening gloves!