Spring

As promised, one of the surprise crocus in the garden.

There are also the beginnings of tulips and daffodils coming up. Those I know about it.

But here is the other side of spring.

Emmy, the formerly grey horse, loves to roll in the mud. This is how she spends most of spring despite being groomed regularly. That pasture? It is probably my biggest source of anxiety and stress at the moment. J. and I have had many discussions about how to allow the horses turn-out while protecting the pastures from further degradation. Many of those plans involve money... money to purchase an attachment for the back of the mower to reseed, money to hire someone to come and turn part of this particular bit of pasture into a larger dry lot so that horses can go out without everything turning into mud, money for a run-in shelter for the horses in the dry lot... 

Spring is currently summed up as mud and money and a couple of flowers.