To the editor:

Sometimes things work – and sometimes they don’t. The new feeder holding 20 pounds of black oil seed is a huge success and we have had to refill it. Of course there has been some help from a squirrel but my little hunter doesn’t let it linger. 

I had hoped for goldfinches after I had filled the old feeder but that didn’t happen. Maybe later. I have envied two friends their resident Carolina wrens so I put up two adorable little wren houses. No luck and I think they like broken down old baskets or old straw hats instead.

John Gwynne reminded me that crocus tomasina was blooming so on that lovely warm Friday I took my stroller out of its winter stable and sallied forth. To my surprise and delight I found an area with SEVEN little clumps in the back 40.  The area had been mowed in January otherwise I would never have seen them in the dead meadow grass. (When I went to look up how to spell tomasina I was surprised to find a number of sweet scented early blooming other crocus. Are you tempted? (Remember McLure Zimmerman if you are.) 

John also reminded me that Sakonnet Garden will be opening May 1 for small groups and by reservation only. 

Between now and the next time I write – there will be a lot of changes. I think the virus has so occupied our minds and our lives that we forgot spring was coming. But it is and the birds and tiny flowers will tell us.

Sidney Tynan

Little Compton