Late winter, early spring, inside and outside

The seasons are changing and it’s a beautiful thing.  Outside, along the roads and highways, I look to the woods lines to see redness in the tops of trees as one of the early signs of emerging spring. I saw these Saturday afternoon along Route 1, beyond a soybean field, between Milford and Lewes.

Meanwhile, the bright red winterberries are still holding on, though they’ll be softening soon, and fermenting, and becoming attractive to mockingbirds, cedar waxwings, robins and other birds looking for late winter nourishment and natural wine.  

Inside, the morning sun backlit these blossoms on a lazy Christmas cactus that prefers the longer light as we ease our way toward the vernal equinox.