Most of our favorite plants aren't much different than they were last week.  Here are four shots of one of those Amaryllises.

You may have to do some memory-searching to bring these amazing yellow Winter Aconites to mind.  Here's one of the places where you get to remember Betty Beese.  At her memorial, almost every dominant hand shot up when someone volunteered how much they owed to Betty for their gorgeous crop of Winter Aconites.  You (like me) may think they might better have been named Spring Aconites, but they weren't, sorry.  Betty was known for many things, but the greatest number of them should be starting to appear in your flower garden about now!

As we are talking about memory,  you might want to volunteer someone like Jim Cook who was one of the Albion English faculty who cannot (just cannot!) get the words to the preamble to the Canterbury Tales out of our brains.  But I've decided to make you wait till April for the relevant words.  If I slip up and forget to add the preamble  to the Canterbury Tales  (God, I hope it doesn't slip out of my mind before then!) will whoever remembers that paragraph (starts with "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote" (When April with his sweet showers) give a shout!   So now you have a month and a half or so to get out your freshman book of quotes.   What do you think about having a group recitation out on the Quad?  Now THAT would be a tradition!  Listen up, Jim!

Here again you see a couple of other pet plants.  This green-and-white-topped one is Pulmonaria from a plant gifted me by Eleanor Rosenthal of Potsdam as I was driving off after saying "Goodbye!"

Next is a whitish Thistle coming up out of the ground a bit more. 

Well,  This blog is already a day late, but here it is!   I'll be more nearly on time next week. 

Love, Martha

Oh. PS, here is that ratty old chair still looking around the corner at you.   Actually he's looking suspiciously at the black squirrel!

So see you next week - same place, a little sooner.  Love, Martha