Signs of spring

2 yards of medium bark for filling ruts, and as a first layer in blueberry
beds. The subsoil here is pure clay, and makes some epic ruts if you
spin your wheels at all on a rainy day.  Which is most of them.
Permaculture wisdom: add organic material.

Today I will just show some of the sights around Folly-up-the-Creek on this day, March 24, 2017, with captions

Bing Cherry buds

Purple Tartarian Cherry buds

The unknown fruit tree is still bashful.

But leaves are emerging, and flowers look ready to pop.

More buds on the mystery fruit tree.

The Fugi apple is managing a few buds.

The golden Delicious is alive!  (partly)

Mystery tree near gnome village

Whatever the mystery gnome tree is, these buds look like just leaves.

What are these 6" spikes in the blackberry patch? Maybe ferns?

A well-established sword fern in the shade of a tree.

Though this fork of the tree is covered with some kind of slick black
coating (some kind of mold?) it managed to send out this bud. 

A shelf fungus 

those little purple flowers in the lawn

Surprise! This apple-ish tree is blooming in the oak grove.

Oak grove- white flowering tree

And a pink-flowered tree in the oak grove

The pink flowers of the Oak Grove pink bloomer.

The tree that started it all, in front of the house, in full flower.