Spring, um, wait, not yet?

I've had a lot of fun taking pictures of the same place in the pasture as my header photo is. It is a neat way to keep track of the arrival of spring, and also the differences in timing from year to year.

And then, it snowed yesterday morning, so I had to capture it.

Saturday morning:


Sunday morning


By Sunday afternoon, the snow was pretty much all gone. Doesn't it look like we may now be at the same place as the header photo? The maples are all budded out. So a difference of April 3rd 2010 to April 17th 2011, that is two weeks later exactly than last year!