Wow!  What a beautiful Sunday!  I have never seen such a nice March.  Hopefully April and May can follow this same pattern.  But that might make us Minnesotans and Dakotans spoiled...Ya think?  Later in the afternoon, Maddie, our year old Pomeranian and I took another walk across the new land we are buying.  Each time we walk, we make new plans!  Part of the land has a bit of a steep slope and will be great for strawberries with a living mulch of white Dutch clover in between the rows to hold the soil in place.  I was planning to do cover crops there this year and next year plant strawberries.  But if we did wider paths of the clover in between the rows of strawberries, we could accomplish both.  So Maddie and I decided that we should plant strawberries there this spring.  That means next year's CSA boxes and stands could have strawberries by next season!!  We could even have a CSA strawberry harvest event!  Do you know how sweet strawberries get when the soil is balanced and filled with life?  We will see!

Anyway, on the way back, I saw the flash of a bluebird.  It had been in one of the flowering crab trees along the driveway.  It led the way as we walked up the driveway.  In the winter, we have a grand view of cardinals, pileated woodpeckers and all the others at our bird feeders.  But...nothing compares to the flash of a bluebird's back in the bright sunshine.  Man has created no color that comes close to matching that!