Overwintered Wonders

Here in Southern Ontario, we are still experiencing morning frost, occasionally accentuated by precipitation of some sort, ranging from mini snow pellets to alated flakes:

My backyard on April 18, 2022, covered in snow as green tulip tops and blooming forsythia may be seen at the back.

Needless to say, the weather referees are not ready for the conviction of the cold season yet, and as for me,  after last year’s incident, in which I lost some of my newly sowed seedlings to a late-April snow fall, I have been more patient this time around, and I will probably wait a few more days before starting my pea, radish, lettuce and carrot seeds.  In the meantime, I have harvested some perennial chives, and horseradish root, as well as a few parsnips and sunchokes that were left behind last fall, to overwinter in the ground.  In the photo above, examples of a parsnip with a green top, and a chubby sunchoke tuber.

I am sharing my snowy scene at CFFC, Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Celebrating Water, and my parsnip and sunchoke pic at Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge.