We’ve had some cold days and some freezing days and some light snow this winter, but we’ve also had a number of 65-70 degree days as well. We actually pulled the mesh protecting the bulbs from squirrels out of the garden several weeks ago because the bulbs were beginning to sprout then. Soon the tulips will be blooming! Amazing.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

‘In the Barber Shop,’ Ilya Bolotowsky, 1934, posted earlier