Winter has descended, but...

Winter has descended, bitter and cold, but I'm already paging through seed catalogs.  I'm curled up in blankets, true, but I'm thinking about spring.  I know I'm supposed to embrace winter.  People advise getting outside and enjoying it, but with this bitter cold and icy walkways, I'm stuck inside until we get more snow for my snowshoes and the weather warms up enough so skin doesn't freeze in ten minutes. I'm not the only who thinks about spring, right?  So I'm going to do a weekly countdown to spring on this blog. I'll focus on some of my favorite flowers, the ones that grow well in my neck of the woods here in Minnesota. Look for new entries on Fridays. For a preview, the photo is a frog on purple basil. Not a flower.  But I love basil! #countdowntospring