"While walking the pups at Black Bay a little yellow something caught my eye so I went to investigate," writes Mrs. Bent/Bent's Beer Garden. "I brushed back the pine needles and lo and behold...a buttercup along with some crocus sprouts! Around here that is definitely a good sign that spring will make an early appearance."

• Great muffin giveaway/A Family Runs Through It
• Suuuhweet/Bent's Beer Garden
• What have we become?/Dogwalk Musings
• Tied to my students w/a new blog/Gathering Around the Table
• Last Saturday at Spring Valley Reservoir/JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• 3BT: Shrub removal, meatloaf, 'that's what she said'/Kellogg Bloggin'
• SkinMD Natural Shielding Lotion, and: Confessions of a Concealaholic/Prime Beauty
• Mud Olympics time/Slight Detour
• E is for embroidery/Tumblewords

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