Meanwhile, back at the house we are slowly building in the winter when it is cold and often wet and muddy: Cross bracing continues. Every set must be custom manufactured, and sometime I must get very creative in order to get it installed, since they should have gone in before the roof...
Until one gloomy day the next March when I glanced out of the window, saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番红花) throughout the front lawn blue, yellow and my favorite pink, with little faces moving up and down in the cold...