Spring hopes eternal

Saturday was one of the best spring skiing days of our lives.  Then on Sunday, it was official:  all the snow finally melted off the garden.  I figured there's no better time for a before picture.  Before pictures are best taken on gray, dreary days so everything looks as grim as possible.

About a month ago the snow was nearly to the top of the compost bin

This picture makes me feel sad for our very nice mail lady. Maybe we'll do something about the crooked mailbox this year.  I honestly have no idea why it has a chain dangling from it, either.

Here's the back garden that we worked so hard on last spring.  It's full of perennials given to me at my wedding shower, theoretically.  Time will tell if they made it through the winter. Notice that our neighbors haven't done so well in the snow-melting department.  

Here's the garden on the very corner of The Corner Lot.  It just happens to have a cute doggie in it. Hopefully the garden won't stay as brown as he is for very long.

I did not realize that our dog matches our house until I took this picture.

But I guess there's nothing wrong with that.  

Things may look pretty brown now, but I did see a few signs of life already!

That's garlic, which we actually remembered to plant last fall!  A+ to us!  Note to self: order seeds so the garlic won't be so lonely.