Spring is finally arriving, it was very nice last week, sunny and temps in the 70's, this week much different, cool 50's and drizzle, fog,  not nice for being outside.  I have continued to work on  the area where I am hoping to have the garden by digging up dirt to loosen it to hopefully make it easier to use the tiller. This is a  slow process, the ground is  very hard and there is a  fair amount of clay in the ground.
     I found several Blood Root blooming  in the front north east corner, there is something else coming up that  appears  that it could have  flowers  will have to wait and see what it is.   The Wild Ginger  that I dig up and brought from MN is coming up. But I feel I need to move it as  it is on the south side of cabin and will have all day direct sunlight. I am  still waiting to see if the Smooth Solomon Seal plant  will make it.
     I have raked areas all around the house, whew, what a  job, hopefully next year  it will not be so hard to do, we burnt leaves and have even started  a  huge  pile of brush in the pasture area for future burning.
      We have been taking Mars to area parks for walks, he seems to enjoy this, otherwise he just likes to roam around here where we are out sniffing and checking things out.
     This is a  picture of the Anemone we saw at the Ledges State Park where we took Mars to walk.