Spring Comes to New Jersey...finally!

Winter has died a long, slow death this year. It appears to have finally breathed its last, but not before showering the northeast with snow one final time on Friday.


Matt and I have developed a technique for determining when spring has arrived in New Jersey- when the weather forecast predicts that the high temperature will not fall below 50 degrees over the next ten days, it is safe to say that spring has sprung.


And guess what, baby? That day has come! Take that, winter!


For those of you who do not live through long, cold winters, let me explain what this means:


No more heavy coats, no more snow boots (although my snow boots totally rock), no more wearing leg warmers under my jeans, no more centralized heating. No more salt caking up on my windshield. Done! Fini!


So, to celebrate the end of winter and the arrival of spring, Matt and I decided to seed our front garden patch. I should have taken a 'before' photo but didn't think of it. It pretty much looked like this:

Actually, our patch of earth looked much worse. Use your imagination to add brambles, random twigs, and dried leaves. And a screw. And a glass bead. 


After attacking the weeds with the grossly inadequate tools at our disposal- old kitchen gloves and a rusty trowel- we managed to clear most of the space. 


Just clearing out the junk made it look SO much better.

 

As my knowledge of gardening is pretty much non-existent, who knows if these seeds will actually result in flowers. But I will (hopefully) post photos within the next 10 days or so that show the beginnings of a flower garden. 

At any rate, flowers or no flowers in the garden patch, I am so glad that Spring has finally come.