Emerging from the Ground, Spring has Sprung in Northern Arizona

It has been an incredibly hot "spring" here.  Actually Spring doesn't officially come for another month, but the bulbs are blooming and the willows, lilacs and fruit trees are flowering and leafing out!

Here are a few beauties from my garden photographed on February 22nd, 2016! They do say that March, April, and May 2016 will be wetter because of the El Nino which usually also means cooler weather.  I expect there will be a snowstorm in Colorado when we pass though in early May.  We have been sleeping with the windows open for weeks now, how weird!

Spring? in Arizona Blog Post 100

It is only mid-January and the nightime temperatures go below freezing every night, but miraculously I have pansies and paperwhites blooming OUTSIDE now.  The paperwhites have adapted to the temperature by sporting a very short stem compared to the bulbs I forced and have in my mudroom.

I am celebrating the 100th blog post of Fab Fabrications to announce my new project called Requilt.  This year, I will be concentrating on  repurposing vintage quilt blocks and quilt tops which never quite got made into a well loved quilt into vests, jackets and other household items like table runners and placements.  It's a form of recycling which is important to me.  I am finding lots of treasures on EBay because sadly I did not have parents or grandparents who made quilts.  The project is still in the "thinking stage", but it is starting to gel and should be an interesting journey.

In the meantime enjoy some kaleidoscopes of my "spring" flowers".