Around The Farm

The fantail pigeons have been making nests and laying eggs, but so far nothing has come of it. I think it's still too cold:

The little hens have done pretty well at keeping their room reasonably clean, and they are both happy and healthy:

Fergus watched me weed the Day Lily bed, which runs alongside the dogs' fence:

And the Sunflower bed, which is adjacent to the Day Lily bed, was much easier to weed because nothing was planted there yet:

The Iris and Asiatic Lily bed was starting to grow, so I quickly weeded that also:

The farm sign was losing its paint, so I took it down and plan to hang it inside the barn:

The white and yellow Daffodils finally flowered:

They are beautiful. The pure yellow ones will bloom next, followed by the pure white ones:

Another of the six baby roses bloomed, this one with a very large bud. This is how it looked on day one:

On day two it put on quite a show:

On day three it was fully open and quite large, as you can tell by my hand in the picture. This variety is called Carefree Delight. I hope it lives up to its name:

And the Darlow's Enigma climbing rose put out one tiny, white flower. It is supposed to be a prolific and continuous bloomer, with vines which can sometimes cover a whole house. It may not do quite that well here in the far north, yet I still have high hopes for it: