I’ve just been taking a winter break. It’s been too cold and wet to do much outside, so I decided to take a break from blogging for a while.
The only thing keeping me sane is flipping through seed catalogs!

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I’m jumping the gun and posting some pictures I took today during lunch. I have a full schedule tomorrow after work and will probably be exhausted and forget to post.   Though not all of these are “blooming” they do add interest to an otherwise boring and soggy winter landscape.
Here we go:

A lovely little yaupon holly [...]