Trout Lily: The first flowers of 2019
Bloodroot: Poppy family and has medicinal uses.
Carolina Spring Beauty

The official tally of snow cover in Marquette was 165 days this winter. I suspect it was even longer at Old Overgrown. But now that most of the snow has melted (most of it – see photo below), the forest is finally coming to life!

And yet, she persisted. Snow on May 13, 2019 at Old Overgrown

 

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Hello Spring … oh, how we have missed you! This pasta dish just screams SPRING! SPRING! SPRING! Although this dish contains cream, it is surprising light and the mint and lemon give it just the right amount of freshness and pop.  Paul made fresh pasta because that’s his thing, but a decent store bought pasta would do.

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Exactly one year ago today, I moved to the UP. Paul came up to start his new job in May. I sold the oh, so fabulous Market Alley Wines on June 16, 2017 and we had to be out of our home in Monmouth on July 1 for our house buyers.  The movers came on June 29 to haul our incredibly down-sized belongings up north and we packed the car with what we would need for a month or so, squeezed in the pup and up north we drove!

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