Went shopping mid-afternoon yesterday. Paid $24.00 for bird seed. (Other garden expenses, too.) Several pictures taken through the window.  Today, mid-morning, I unloaded the bags and filled bird feeders. Time and temperature after I finished replenishing the feeders. Then I sat quietly and watched the birds come for the smörgåsbord. ~~ Other projects accomplished, too. So nice to spend time in the garden.

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Remember how pretty the Cape Honeysuckle was? I had it indoors every time we had freezing temperatures. Then I transplanted it into a planter too large to move. I faithfully covered it the last few arctic blasts but this last storm was critical. Today I trimmed away the black ugly leaves and all that formerly beautiful new growth.

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First opportunity to wash the shelter tarp and plan to fold up, and put away.

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Postscript, Sunday, March 8, 2015, 9:00 AM: I awakened to hard rain at 1:45. Several days of rain expected; two to four inches today. Had I known, I wouldn’t have started the “fold the tarp” project.

Hundreds of birds visible from my windows!! “If you feed them, they will come” (to paraphrase a popular saying).