A resounding yes to those near and far--Spring will come, Spring has shown up today, Spring is on the way! After reading about all of the snows, rain, wind and general catastrophic winter for so much of our country (today it's the mid-west horrors of Spring flooding), it's hard to believe that things may bloom, life may change and warmth is on the way. In North Carolina we are ushered in with bone chilling nights and windy blown sun on early sprouts in the garden. Cold but

So everyone in the Southeast often has the advantage of Spring earlier than the rest of the northern USA. This causes things to really start buzzing in early March. Yesterday I went and picked up some blooms at my somewhat stark local garden shop to prep for an event in a few weeks. Yes, pushing it, I know since they are even predicting snow flurries this afternoon, but we are nothing in not hopeful to get out of the monsoon season and frigid temps we've experiences these l