buds!

Even though we have more snow days predicted, the trees and shrubs outside are showing their promise of spring. Fat buds showing on the ends of all twigs. Here's some off the front-yard trees.

My daughter's little Apple plants in pots on the porch are also forming buds; but I couldn't manage to get a clear picture of them. She's so excited! She feared her baby apple trees were dead because they dropped all their leaves (although she knows the full-grown trees "go to sleep" in the winter and loose their leaves, I guess it was just dismaying to see it happen to her own!)