spring!!! soon & very soon

Yesterday was so warm that the bees buzzed out of their hives for a couple hours. They looked so pitiful trying to get pollen from old dried out flowers that I put my Valentine's day flowers (3 hyacinth bulbs from Benjamin) out on the porch. Before I went back in there were at least 10 bees excavating pollen. Their buzz is such a refreshing change from the cold silence.As Joachim's first birthday approaches (Feb 23) here are pictures from a year ago today.