Spring at last!

We were gone from Beatitude Pond for four days at a conference and returned to find more snow gone, more green things poking up from the crusty cold earth. The ducks are now regular visitors to the pond. The Phoebes are back, scoping out the ground for stray seeds.
I can work the garden and was able to plant the bare root of the blueberry bush that arrived in the mail last week in a long box. We are back in business and I expect the peepers and bullfrogs will resume their rhythm and song in the coming week or so.
On the exposed grass we can now see things we had forgotten about low these six months while everything was under a foot of snow.