This was the scene just yesterday looking towards downtown Milwaukee. The ice is thick on the water this year. The Great Lakes are frozen over the most in over a decade. Ice fishermen are having to use extensions on their augers to get through ice over 3 feet thick. It is a good thing as our lake level will go up instead of down this year due to the evaporation loss being lower this winter. The added snow will also help increase lake levels which is also a good thing. It is just so hard being a gardener and waiting, waiting for spring to show us that it will come.
I heard the broad wing hawks out in the back yard trees calling back and forth today. There is some snow melt and temperatures are into the 40's again. We have a weather system moving in tonight but it is a promise of rain rather than white stuff. It may freeze, but temperatures are going up.
I have much to do in my indoor green space. I want to get some micro-greens going this weekend. I have my seeding schedule all laid out, but not on my calendar to make sure I do it on time. It is also time to make some cuttings and start pitching the old plants soon. Spring will come, in small, quiet steps. We turn to look and it disappears, but it is there.
I am looking forward to my annual Art in Bloom held at the Milwaukee Art Museum. I am taking my oldest daughter for her first time this year. I have a bonus day this year to spend with a college friend coming into town for the event. This is such a wonderful time to take in beautiful art work, floral arrangements, and see a world class building.
Spring will come, we just have to go and find it under the snow banks this year.
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