Are you dazed and confused, having missed an hour of sleep? It's daylight savings time! March 9, let's face it, is way too early for daylight savings. How about just regular daylight? The snow is melting, and there are signs that spring is afoot but not quite sprung.
A recent tour of Fort Tryon Park on March 7 revealed salty sidewalks and snow on the hillsides. Will the winter of 2014 ever end?
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| A Portal from Winter into Spring |
Blooming heath was a pleasant surprise.
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| Pink Erica in the Heather Garden |
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| Yellow Erica |
Spring can't be far away when four NYC Parks workers trim one rose bush. Two of them were pruning the rose and two of them were staring at the one small tarp that had been laid down on the sidewalk for the thorny stems yet to come.
On the more westerly side of the Heather Garden one of the surest harbingers of spring--witch hazel--showed off its pretty orange petals against the snow. Native Americans taught the colonists how to use the leaves and barks of this multi-stemmed shrub to create an astringent for skin sores. It was an all-purpose liniment found in everyone's medicine chest a mere 50 years ago.
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| Witch Hazel |
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| Andromeda's Red Blooms |
With March still in its lion phase, the Heather Garden had two additional
spring beauties to share, Andromeda and Magnolia.
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| Magnolia Buds |
Perhaps on my next walk I shall see the March lamb. . .
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