Sounds of Spring!

Fresh.  That's the word that describes what it smells like outside right now.  A small rain shower went over.  It didn't amount to very much but the smell is outstanding and the rainbow that it produced was beautiful; first one of the season.

I just came in from tucking my plants into the garage.  Canada Geese were honking in the bush behind my house.  They are nesting by one of the sloughs amidst the trees.

There was another sound this evening that I have not heard since last year.  The boreal tree frogs were singing in the bush as well.  I love listening to them.  When they all get singing at the same time, the sound can be deafening; yet when they sense that someone is close by, they will stop immediately and all you hear is dead silence.

I noticed that some Canada Geese were nesting on top of a beaver den along the roadway.  They did that last year as well.  The den is right alongside the road and the geese spent many of their days on the road itself.  They appeared to play 'chicken' with the vehicles going by.

The warm temperatures over the past couple of days have done wonders in my yard.  The big melt has finally happened and now I have a big mud hole.  I had to put my rubber boots on to go from the house to the garage and they felt like they weighed ten pounds a piece by the time I made it back.  The only place that snow remains is on the north side of the fence and the garage.

I'm hoping that the yard will be dried up enough by Monday so I can spend some time marking out where the raised garden beds will go and where the paths will be laid.  I want to order all the supplies and have them on site for my week off at the beginning of June.  Let the back yard construction begin!