Blooming Inside

Brr, it's cold outside, although even from the back window I can see tiny green shoots where the surprise lilies and daffodils are starting to peek through the soil in the garden. Silly plants. We are headed for the coldest weather in a decade, the weather people say, later this week. As in zero and below.

This is what last summer's geraniums looked like a week before Christmas, and most of them are still there today. It helps on cloudy, snowy, drizzly days to be able to look at them. And to think for a while I thought about not wintering them over!

Norm has been putting out acorns for the squirrels--to keep them off the sunflower seed feeder, mostly. This past fall there was a total acorn drought in our neighborhood. We had raked up a lot from the bumper crop in 2007 and stored them in a metal container in the garage, so now we can put out a squirrel buffet. When these are gone, they will have to subsist on sweet gum balls (of which there are loads) or else go back to raiding our feeders!