Tansy

Here is the tansy just poking up, I put it in the ground today. And here's the third clump of daffodil, these are in the round bed between the house and the barn. Jamie Hume is interested in certain type of these but I don't remember which ones, or where they are.

Button-making preparations

Richard had a hunk of soapstone, a nice greenish, dense stone, but it needed to be cut down into useable chunks. So Robert the Artificer to the rescue. We tried several different methods before settling in on the metal-cutting band saw. The size and shape of the block, plus the configuration o the tool required a table extension to position the stone correctly. To kleptocracy the work stable the cuts were not made all the way through the rock at first, but several were made then finished off in subsequent passes, to finally provide the uniform slabs you see here.

More

There are more daffodils open, up by the second driveway. The tansy is coming back so that will need to get into the ground soon.

Spring

Our first flowers are finally up

Crocus, buttercup and daffodil. The buttercups are all through the woods, this daffodil is straight out across the lawn from the stairs to the deck, on the right

Weather

Snow again today, though it did not stick

Flag and soil

Here is my new soil, composted over two years. So too are the flag iris, some of which have been lifted and reset, others moved to a holding pen.

Weather

More snow last night. Not much , but still...