the miserable gardener

Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, your popular host, Mani the purebred border collie, here today to bring you a very soggy post. You may remember me from such posts as “Up The Creek”, among so many, many others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.
It may look cold, but it isn’t. The snow is very slushy.
The guy I live with said to me “We live in soggy times”, though this isn’t normally the case here. But now, things are very soggy indeed.
The snow is melting, and dripping everywhere. It’s supposed to be windy tonight, and maybe that will melt the snow more, making things even soggier, and then it’s supposed to snow for the next for or five days.

There are snowdrops. They may be covered in snow again by this coming weekend, but they’re here now, which is what matters.
These are two different forms of Galanthus graecus. Basically, I guess, these are what used to be called G. elwesii but they have more twisted leaves, and are found in Europe, from Greece to Crimea.
There are other snowdrops in flower, too.

The main reason for this post, though, is pictures of the creek. The guy I live with posted some on Facebook, but I wanted to show the whole series.
We’ve never seen the creek look like this before. Maybe because it rained and there was water in the creek and then ice, which has now collapsed into the creek bed.
It’s pretty cool-looking, I think.
Pretty strange-looking, don’t you think? And yet, photogenic, just like me.

Anyway, that’s my post for today. The guy I live with got a “high wind warning” on his phone for tonight, but that turned out to be for places like Idaho Springs and Evergreen, up in the mountains, which I guess are included in our forecast, because those places aren’t all that far away from here.

Until next time, then.

Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, your popular host, Mani the purebred border collie, here today for a short post. You may remember me from such posts as “How To Avoid Gardening”, among so many, many others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.
I guess this technically isn’t a pose, so I’m indulging in some poetic license here. Or postic license, maybe.

You can tell what happened this morning. It rained all night, which the guy I live with said was “beyond totally weird”, even though he liked it a lot, and then when he finally got out of bed this morning, it was snowing.

The temperature was above freezing so it was very wet, heavy snow. It’s not supposed to get too cold tonight, so this is more like a spring snow.

He took some pictures of the willows as we walked by, not suspecting at all what might happen when we walked under them.
As we came back this way, I heard a sudden cracking sound and kind of raced ahead, dragging the guy I live with behind me.
That was pretty scary. The branch wasn’t that big, but one of us might have been hit by it.
The guy I live with said I was fairly heroic. Not to be immodest, but that is one of my duties, protecting the guy I live with. And myself too, of course.

I don’t have anything else for today.

Until next time, then.