Spring's work in January?

Well here's something you don't see every day in the north land! 

I took these pictures yesterday of my backyard. It clearly shows that we have zero snow. It also clearly shows that I did not get done cutting down all my flowers last fall before the snow....ahem....flew. Well we MUST have had a little snow at some point a while back, and I'm pretty sure that's why this stuff is not cut down. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)

You will note on the first photo with the St. Francis statue in it that there is a small debris pile in the lower right-hand corner. So I did actually start the job. 

But why, you ask, am I not doing this clean-up work now since there is no snow? Well, when you have record-setting 59-degree weather in God's Country at the beginning of January, you don't spend it doing yard work. You basically just stand around and spend your time marveling at how warm it is outside! Or you run around the yard photographing your ineptitude when it comes to doing that fall flowerbed work.

To be honest, after all the floods and snow North Dakota had last year, I think this respite is actually much-needed. I know the pendulum is probably swinging from one extreme to the other, but you can't swing from one extreme to the other without hitting center, and I'm telling myself we're at center for now.

I'm sure soon enough we'll start worrying about how we don't have enough moisture, but for now, I'm happy with these sunny, warm My Two Acres days!

Dawn