First Redbud Blooms of 2010

This was the first day of 2010 I have noticed redbud blooms.

Snow Covered The Woodlands

Growing up in the southern U.S. I've seen few days like this. There was 6 inches of snow. We had little damage to the timber, not at all like the ice storms we some times get. I got an e-mail from a friend from Liberia who reported taking part in his first snowball fight. He is in Macon, Georgia.

First Bluets of 2010

This morning as I walked the woodland trails I saw Bluets blooming for the first time in 2010.
I have grown to like those little blooms. I suppose for the first 50 years of my life I just walked right over them. Now I they are always admired.

http://2bnthewild.com/index2.shtml is a site to lean more about bluets.

Bluets (Houstonia caerulea)