pop! its spring

after seeing the frost kill of the early leaves on our magnolia tree new buds are popping out amongst the dead brown leaves:


i notices jacque whacking the buds on the iris plants the other day with a stick, well this morning some of them went off:



just to give you an idea of who dense they are, there are 25 flower buds in this section of the plants, about 1/3 of the total