Long spring

 When we lived in Regina, a friend’s daughter asked her what her favourite season was. She said spring, and her daughter said “oh, how sad, that’s the shortest season.”

In Regina spring really was short. Winter was very long, summer was a normal length, fall was short-ish, and spring could really get missed in the blink of an eye. Here, not so much. There have been signs of spring since late January, and it will continue through June. Although January/February spring is sort of a winter spring mix and June spring is a spring summer mix, it really does last that long. 

This means that gardening season has started and will last almost until it is spring again :-) We have our deer fence up, and this weekend we planted fruit trees – two kinds of apples, and one each of plum, cherry, and peach. Plus, blueberries and three kinds of grapes. The fruit trees/vines/bushes were my Christmas present from my mom, and I couldn’t be more excited that we finally have a yard where they will grow.

It is a little bit hard to see, but this is a picture of the fruit trees, some of the grapes, and the fence:

In the background you can see our magnolia tree, which is starting to bloom. Soon the trees will bloom and then leaf out and really start to grow, but for now we are so happy to literally be putting down roots 😊