I checked the pears…gone. Most of them anyway. Once more we lost the apricots and the pears. My lilacs are starting to bud so I hope the temperatures stay up and I can have lilac blooms. It’s been YEARS since I’ve had any lilac blooms.
The Apple trees are starting to bloom and I noticed buds on the prune and wild plum trees. Everything is propelling themselves into spring…turning their little hearts toward sun and warmth.
I sure hope it starts to warm up and stay that way.
The clouds came in from the west yesterday—leaving patches of blue sky and warm sun, but completely filling the air from north, south, east, and west over night.
A swoosh of cold air has arrived, although the weather people say we will warm up to 77* today, then drop down to 59* tomorrow with huge winds starting this afternoon.
Which propels me forward for Terry and I are taking a trailer of old metal up to Montrose today and we must load it first! 🙂
So off I go to help gather old engine blocks, scrap metal, and other detritus accumulating here and there.
Have a good one!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
LInda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
This has been a weird year for weather all over the country. I hope some of your lilac blossoms will survive. I remember the lilacs we had at our home when I was a child. Lilacs always bring back wonderful memories.
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For me also. And I LOVE the smell!
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Sorry about your fruit trees, Linda. It has been so cold here that our pear trees are still sleeping. Hopefully the lilacs will be OK….I love them so. Frustrating, isn’t it?
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It is. I hope you get lots of fruit and lilac blooms come true Spring!
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We only get fruit one year in seven….I was hoping this would be the seventh year.
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I hope it is too!!! 🙂
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Sory about your lost fruit but glad you don’t depend on the income from them.
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Oh! Me too! I was raised on a fruit orchard and I know that hell!
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No pears! How sad! We lost the cherries already, but not to weather, but to rats! I am SO angry, but can do nothing about it.
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RATS!!! Thank heavens we don’t have rats. Mice, but no rats!
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I used to think of rats as something that infested old neighborhoods, but that neighborhood is now getting old.
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Very interesting
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Sorry about your apricots and pears, hope you get lilacs:)
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Me too. They are getting closer and closer to bursting out.
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Oh I love that image Linda … what happened to the pears .. the wind?
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No they froze!
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Oh dear!
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