June Hughes wrote:
As a lab owner I am required to walk a lot and therefore see the trees
every day in their various states of bud. They are coming on but things
are far behind last year.

Absolutely. As much as we had a late season, dragging well into
November, everything seem to be so slow to wake up. As a Tervurenes
owner ;o) I can see every day twice a day (the third time he does it)
that the trees shape are softening by the appearance of the buds, but
it's not really that yet.

It's warming up next week. Hooray!