Cyn - I just remembered to come look for your photo - love the touch with Daffodils!! We still have a little snow, where the big banks were, but it is dirty and almost gone - now it is allergy season!! Yea. I have done a little bit of cleanup in our new yard. Dear god, how much crap the last people left under the snow!! Kids small toys everywhere and garbage and recyclables under the deck!! What a mess - also hundreds of cigarette butts!! We have a postage stamp-sized front yard, which I raked, as I wanted to get the crap out of the way of anything that might come up - tulips noses coming out through the ice!!! Yea. Hopefully they have enough oomph in them to bloom. Love this time of year, despite the allergies!! Nancy.

My condolences to all who've suffered a loss. My good friend Gail lost her Mom this past year. I saw Gail yesterday and expressed my sympathy. I am so fortunate my own Mom is here with me and I talk to her on the phone every day.

Wow Marilyn, what a beautiful shot! Just reminded me that last year I committed to this being my big year to studiously learn all of my swallowtails. There are so many!!!! LOL I will memorize them, I will!!

Many of our wild bluebell populations have been intermingled with garden genes and it’s quite a problem. “Does it matter that we have both in the wild? The UK's woodlands are home to almost 50% of the world's population of the bluebell. But this much-loved plant is under threat. The Spanish bluebell is more vigorous than our native bluebell, so can outcompete it for resources like light and space. It can hybridise with our native, too, producing fertile plants that show a whole range of mixed features from both species. Over time, this hybridisation changes the genetic makeup of our native species, diluting its characteristics, weakening it and potentially evolving it into something else. It is now thought that most bluebells in urban areas are actually hybrids. A study by Plantlife has also found that one in six broadleaved woodlands contained hybrids or the Spanish bluebell.” https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/identify-bluebells