small, hopeful garden note

We checked the front yard this afternoon, and there are some crocus shoots (from the bulbs we planted) and at least one daffodil shoot (planted before we got here).

There was snow yesterday, and there will be a lot of snow tomorrow, but there are also these first signs of spring.

And, weirdly, a small surviving leaf or two from one of my fall lettuces.

teakettle

We have a new teakettle, which we bought at China Fair (thank you to everyone who mentioned it; despite having been there a couple of times before, neither I nor cattitude thought of it on our own yesterday).

I'm not sure I like it as well as the one it's replacing, but I'm not sure how much of that is that we'd had the previous one for thirty years and were very used to it. If by some chance I see another of that style, I will probably buy it (it had no label of any sort, and I have no idea if they're still being made, or indeed were made for more than a six-month period back in the 1980s).