Spring arrived today at 12:15 pm. It is cold and rainy in Athens and we are expecting more winter weather. Spring flowers have started to bloom. Hellebores (Lenten roses), crocuses, dwarf irises, and daffodils are blooming. Soon there will be tulips, hyacinths, wood poppies and maybe other spring flowers. I plant many bulbs in the Fall but I often have to share them with the moles, voles, squirrels, and chipmunks that visit my yard so I never know what might appear. Even though they do not like daffodils, they often dig them up and I have to replant them if I see them before they rot.

Photos of early spring flowers from my garden.