A Month of Spring and Whaddya Get?

One month after the start of spring and what does Michigan weather bring?

April 18 Spring Snow

I brought the pot of pansies back into the sun room. Even though the temperature at the time of this photo was 34 degrees, they looked miserable. They were from the greenhouse just a few days ago and had not yet been "hardened off" to April temperatures. Pansies are cold tolerant but that doesn't mean their little pansy faces are actually happy in this kind of weather.

I have a spring surprise as well--inside. An old veteran cactus that has been ugly and doing nothing by the window, behind the loveseat, in the sun room, after a season of neglect, with a little encouragement, is blooming like crazy!

April 18 snow outside--blooming on the inside