The next time you are on Route 926 near New Bolton, check out the deep-green grass-like stems sprouting along the sides of the road. It's a wonderful perennial called Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum), and it spreads like crazy. In the next couple of weeks each plant will be sending up its flower stalk, and there will be a beautiful sea of white flowers.
And don't miss the striking yellow-brown color of willow and forsythia branches, just getting ready to sprout. The color is so distinctive against the still-brown late-winter fields.
I haven't heard the pond peepers quite yet, even though I was outside at dusk today with my head cocked toward the marsh, listening really hard, like the Grinch on Christmas morning.
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