GREEN HILLSIDES AND FORGET-ME-NOT'S

SOUTH-FACING BLUFF TURNING GREEN WITH EMERGENT TREE LEAVES

 FORGET-ME-NOT 

Tuesday, 8:15 AM.  45 degrees F, wind WSW, calm with very light gusts.  The sky is clear, the humidity 68% and the barometer starting to fall, now standing at 30.32".  Hopefully the falling barometer is accurately predicting significant rain for Thursday evening.
   As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the hillsides are beginning to turn chartreuse with the newly emergent leaves of willows, poplars, apples and some other early trees.
   Forget-me-not's, annuals of the genus Myosotis ("mouse ear" in Latin), are blooming.  Last year at this time the seeds still lay dormant under the snow.  These weedy, cheerful little yellow-centered blue flowers are a diverse lot, some indigenous, some garden escapes.  They prefer wet spots, but will also grow on drier sites.  They are, mostly, welcome intruders in the landscape, and easy to pull if you don't want them where they pop up.

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