Green is the Color of Spring

While I wait for the seeds I ordered to arrive, while I wait for bulbs I planted to come up, while I wait for it to quit raining so I can start working the soil, I can enjoy the colors of green.

It has been an incredibly rainy spring so far. Yes, you say it always rains in the Pacific Northwest, but we have been keeping our dryer springs a secret. I guess it wasn’t a secret last year when the cry of ‘drought’ even reached our corner of the U.S. This year, not a worry in the world. The snow pack in the mountains is a 125% of normal and still climbing. We can feel it down in the lowlands even if we can’t see it. That is because the cloud cover has been low and wet. We know the peaks are there white and beautiful, but we only get to see them if we tweet, facebook, or text all our friends when a sighting occurs.

So while we wait the plants don’t. The herbaceous greens are pushing out and the warmth of the winter has things leafing out a little sooner. I even have hosta leaves showing along with trilliums. I thought I would share the brilliant green colors in my garden right now. You should picture me with a camera in my hand, waterproof boots, down vest under a raincoat and hood covering my head. Wait a minute, that has been my attire since January. That is the wardrobe of spring this year.

Even the dog is waiting for it to stop raining.