Now that winter is over, that is . . .  It was a hard, tough winter for all God’s creatures–at least it was in this part of the world.  Take the deer, for instance.

This shot from March shows how the bold deer have nibbled away at the cedars that flank this end of our house.

They have eaten on cedars that surround our house.

We had a hungry deer population this winter.  Can you see how much more they have eaten of the cedar beside the basement door?

At the bottom of the lawn, they also went after the yews.

In the past 14 years, this is the only time the deer have eaten this much of our yews.

The sad part of this story is that everything looks so dead this spring.  They say that spring will arrive late and be slow in doing so.  But on the positive side of the ledger, the slow warming trend allowed much of the snow melt to sink into the ground and we weren’t faced with severe flooding as we have seen in past years.  It also resulted in fewer problem areas along the secondary (dirt) road that we live beside.

Rejoice the sun is shining and green is peeking.  More on that next time.