Spring has sprung very early this year. If you look closely at some of our local Hazel trees, you’ll see tiny pink sea-anenome-like pink blossoms beginning to shrivel up, though the catkins still dance yellow in the sun and breeze. Around the island, soil is being tended, peas and other early seeds sowed, and Brassicas that have held over from last year are beginning to show new life. Flowers both timely and early are blossoming everywhere: crocus, cherry, wild and cultivated plum, forsythia, hyacinth, heather; even dandelion and daffodil. Bees and other wild pollinators of many species alternate between drunkenly perusing blossom-laden branches and sleepily curling up in the bosoms of half-open flowers. Thank goodness for the more seasonable lower temperatures, this week, and the sun, still beckoning.
See photos pages 7 and 12. Enjoy!
