Violets are blooming!

Though the weather is quite cold, wild violets are blooming in sunny spots in the garden. Their biological clock tells them it's time to bring flowers. It's a good sign - Nature begins to wake up from long winter sleep.

No matter how cold and windy the weather was this weekend, we worked in the garden. Curious glances through the fence followed our every motion, from the left side

and from the right side of the garden:


And Mr Watson, our lovely assistant and chief gardener, gave us a helping paw in digging around the trees, gathering twigs and sawing branches: