Snowflakes drift, willows poke

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On the Road: The first flowers of spring

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Red willows are the earliest bloomers of the year and are the prettiest.

The easiest place to find an abundance of pussy willows is in the foothills.

But snow wasn’t the main reason I’d come out this way looking for willow catkins.

The snow backed off after a few minutes and I drove on looking for more willows and hoping for more snow.

There were around 30 trumpeter swans paddling on the calm waters, moms, dads and grey-plumed babies.

With them were mallards and Canada geese and even a few wigeons just flown in from the south.

They were dwarfed — even the geese — by the huge white swans swimming across the blue water and dipping down to the reservoir bottom to grab things to eat.

After watching them I decided to head back east instead of going west.

I inhaled it deeply as I shot my pictures and then stuck the stems in my heater vent as I started up the truck and headed back to town. Wonderful. Snow and sun, swans and, of course, catkins, the first flowers of the new year . And now the equinox is here. Welcome to springtime in southern Alberta ..

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