SPRING IN MY STEP

This is my first Utah spring and I am impressed with how green everything has become in such a short amount of time.  It seems that we go from snow on the ground straight to daffodils. I assumed that when you have this much snow, there would be a period of melt where everything is wet and muddy.  Not so, at least not here in Park City. Maybe because the climate is so dry, but the snow literally seems to evaporate rather than melt.

The golf course was actually green underneath as the snow receded. Our lawn was a different story, it was brown when the snow left, but not for long- only a week or so.  The hillsides were the last thing to green up, but they, too, have come around.

Lots of tulips are showing their sweet faces in the neighborhood which amazes me.  In Bellevue, I could NEVER keep my tulips safe from the deer. While we have so much more wildlife here, the tulips are untouched. Blows my mind.

I knew leaving Bellevue I would miss the Thundercloud Plum tree we planted in our yard when Rachel was about 7, as well as those throughout the neighborhood. But, behold, we have blooming trees in our yard here- not sure the variety, but they are lovely!

It is one long discovery process to see what is growing in our yard, as things sprout up left and right. I asked a friend in our ward that gardens, to come over and do a walk-through of our yard to tell me what plants were ornamentals and what were weeds- kinda like the wheat and the tares!

I am pleased to report that I have day lilies, lupines, Shasta Daisies, Peonies, oriental poppies, iris, daffodils, hyacinths and some thornless canes that really look like raspberry plants. Many of those plants were in my sizeable garden in Bellevue that I had planted and nurtured for 25+ years and was very sad to leave. What a joy to find them here! I am just missing the roses and dahlias that I had at home.

Oh there is no lilac bush here- gotta have a lilac!