While winter comes early, Spring comes late in Northern Wyoming. So, our Spring Journal will be a little late, too, so that we can get the most out of our Spring observations. Even so, we can still see faint signs of Spring everywhere we look - if we look with the right perspective.
Evergreen buds and new growth:
Some kind of wild bulb sprouting:
First forest wildflowers:
These pretty blue evergreen berries caught my eye:
Evidence of the changing season and life cycles . . . snow still on the ground, rotting timber, and green:
Fuzzy green growth:
Signs of Spring inside include seedlings:
And new life . . . baby chicks.
This little girl adores them! (She has since she was old enough to walk.) See my post about our Spring chicks to see more cuteness. I will be sharing more on my learning blog as well because I have a chicken unit study planned. =)
A short while ago, we bought some fruit trees to plant on our land in Montana - an apple, plum, and cherry and some blueberry bushes. It is too cold to plant them outside, so we have enjoyed watching the trees bud, leaf out and bloom - inside!
Apple blossoms:
Blueberry blossoms:
(which I will need to pinch off very soon)
(Jordan's)
(Nathan's)
(Dylan's)
One of the things that I love most about Spring is that this is when the Biblical New Year starts (what a perfect reminder of the new life that we have in Messiah!). We are remembering the Spring Feasts this week - Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits. We have kept it very simple this year. We observe the Passover and then eat unleavened bread for 7 days. Today, we observed the Feast of First Fruits (which represents Yeshua as the first fruits from the grave).
Happy Spring!
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