AH, SPRING!

ANOTHER CHILL, GRAY DAY, AND SPRING'S ON HOLD AGAIN

TULIPS BLOOMING AT THE RITTENHOUSE INN, BAYFIELD

Friday, 9:00 AM,  37 degrees at the Ferry Dock, 32 on the back porch. Wind NE, calm to very light. The sky is gray with a very high overcast.  The humidity is 71% and the barometer remains steady, at 30.08".  Spring is stalled on this gray, chill day.  But,we are taking the opportunity to go to our wholesale nursery supplier, Northwoods Nursery, in Rhinelander, today to pick up plants for our first planting job of spring.

   The Rittenhouse Inn on Rittenhouse Avenue in Bayfield has a front yard garden on a steep south hill, and there we spotted our first Bayfield tulips in bloom yesterday afternoon.  Other tulips around town will also bloom soon, despite the very cool weather.  I planted a number of additional tulips in our perennial garden last fall and can hardly wait to seem them in bloom.

   We drove to Cornucopia for dinner last night but found the Village Inn closed, so we headed to the Steak Pit in Washburn.  Our roundabout trip was enlivened by sights of turkey and deer, and yesterday afternoon I heard a grouse drumming on Old San Road. 

    Ah, spring!

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