Spring will not be denied

I ventured outside yesterday.  It was pretty cold, but after awhile I realized that if I'm waiting for warm weather, I may be house-bound for quite a while yet.  I planted a row of snap peas and sprayed the fruit trees.  

Obviously, the old peach tree is waking up.  

Large portions of the old peach tree have died and been trimmed off.  Cliff and I find it amazing that although this main limb seems to be dead, there are two small branches coming out of it with lots of buds on them.  Sometimes there is more life in a living being than one might suspect.  

The buds on the old-fashioned lilac are swelling.  

Later on, I got down on the ground and used Gracie as a pillow.  She insisted on licking me with her rougher-than-sandpaper tongue.  

This afternoon I took another stroll in the pasture.  The horses are grazing frequently.  The cows try, but they don't have the kind of teeth that can nip the grass off right at the ground.  In fact, cows have no front teeth on top at all, so they need the grass to be a couple inches tall to really get a big bite.  

It feels even colder today, I think, than yesterday.  However, the sun is shining, and that's always a big plus.