Do I Smell Spring In The Air?

It's still cold here and there's still snow and ice on the ground, yet on sunny days I smell spring in the air - and it makes me happy. It also gives me energy to get more done. This is the view across the county road from my upstairs front window:

Jasmine, Remy and all the other herd members have built up such a layer of wasted hay that they can always find something to eat and something on which to sleep:

Two of the little hens are laying an egg every other day, so I am averaging an egg per day. That may not seem like much, but it's more than I can eat. Soon I'll be cooking them (the eggs, not the chickens) for the dogs again:

Some pairs of fantail pigeons have laid eggs, but it's still too cold for them to hatch:

But they seem healthy and happy:

The cows and horses relax more now that the temperatures have moderated:

What the heck is this? It's last year's Day Lily flower stalks poking up through the snow. I have big plans for growing flowers this spring, though that will mean not letting the chickens out:

The feel of spring in the air has not resulted in me spending more time outdoors, at least not yet. But it has inspired me to do more indoor cleaning - which in turn inspired me to take some pictures of the memorabilia hanging on my living room wall. This was a collection of pieces of work horse equipment, nailed to an old barn board. They were souvenirs brought home from the abandoned farm in eastern Oregon where my maternal grandparents began their married life. We visited it when I was a boy, some time in the 1950s. My grandparents farmed there in the late 1800s or early 1900s:

I used to live near a dairy farm and had permission to hike on the land. I discovered the site where he dumped the cows who had died. I rescued a skull and spent untold hours scraping and bleaching it. Then I glued two horns on it and spray painted the skull white:

And this was a drum I made for shamanic drum circles. Atop it is a feather fan to use when burning sage:

A wooden mask, which I purchased on a trip to Taxco, Mexico. I was buying gifts for friends but got this one for myself:

More of my spring planting fever. I ordered six Yarrow Plants of various colors to plant somewhere (I don't yet know where). One of these days I'll have to post photos of all the plants I've ordered for this spring: