Spring has arrived and all about the yard, things are abuzz with change that this time of year brings forth. From these pictures you can tell such things are clearly happening as the snow melts away flowing to nearby seasonal brooks. This patio chair, for example, was blown by a winter storm a few months ago and became encased in the icy snow that day. 
Now, with a few more sunny days, winter’s icy grip will have melted away and the chair will be returned to it’s summer home a hundred or so feet away. The larger area about here, or I should say below, is a snow covered seasonal pond used for ice skating.
Nearby, this bench attests to likely slow process of being freed any time soon – perhaps by mid to late April. Then, it will be time to give it a little care before the wood becomes part of the lawn that grows about the area.
Moving west about 50 feet, this lone oak leaf has melted itself on a slow paced journey of a few inches into the lightly crusted snow. All its leafy friends 
are likely buried a few feet below in the nearby drainage ditch or, more likely, in the woods a few hundred feet away where the nearest oak tree stands. In my younger years this probably would not have caught my attention.
Time to have a Spring bonfire before the snow goes.
Closer to the woods, where this Chevy frame sits, a few bare sections of ground are visible. Still brown though of course. Hey look there are oak leaves out here. This area will eventually just get mowed every now and then. So I head back to the house knowing that this white stuff could still fall on occasion for another month or so. But I do make a stop on the eastern side of the house, and the only color, other than my JD 410, are these plants starting their annual Spring surge as they shoot above the softer and warmer soil around the house foundation.
Eventually these become orange tiger lilies and some white daffodils.
So I guess things aren’t really abuzz that much just yet – it’s more of a slower paced journey until the ground thaws out more. Once that happens – boom – mosquitoes, but that’s another story.