Slender Shoots

The birthday is done, and while there may soon be pictures appearing on this old guy's blog site, for now I just want to take you back to Tuesday's photo excursion. Sue decided that we should look for crocuses for her photo prompt. The last time we drove by the wild crocus patch, it was covered with snow, so I wasn't hopeful but was game to try.

But the first stop was the neighbourhood park where a few crocuses will eventually appear by the big boulder. But as I expected, they were still hiding underground. Who can blame them?

The pond is still frozen, but there was birdsong. I thought the juxtaposition or spring song and pond-ice interesting, so I took a short clip. I think they now call such video clips, reels. It is cheering to hear the avian calls, but it can't be easy for them to find sufficient provender in this weather, speaking of which, it snowed last night.

We drove to the other possible location for croci. The main patch hadn't bloomed yet, but we found a couple of very slender, tightly furled, shoots off in the far corner. The macro photo makes them look quite a bit bigger than they really were.

Very sadly, there were a couple of crocuses that had opened or tried to open, but they had succumbed to the brutal weather and were lying forlornly and withering on the ground. Such a pity. Nevertheless, finding these few shoots was encouraging. Now, we must hope for slightly better weather and many more croci.

This was another photo from that day in yet another garden that we checked out, but nothing was stirring there. I thought it worthy of a quick snap.