Noticing the year, Mid-March 2010

Beautiful day, laughingly called warm (50's) by sun-starved New Englanders. We saw our first red-wing blackbird this week and our first bats tonight. I wore hiking sandals on our dogwalk, but am not putting away the snowboots yet. This isn't my first March in New England.

Urban Nature Pictures 3/17

Red maple.

Crocus and bee, doin' it.

Thanks to reader SB of Chestnut Hill Massachusetts for providing this photo of a crocus participating in an ecosystem in North America. This hairy little bee is just covered with crocus pollen. It's a lovely picture as well as a clear answer to my earlier query.

3:00 snapshot #449

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