'Tis the Season for a Hard Frost

The daffodils are sHiVeRiNg outside. I told the bees to warn the plants: Don't come up out of the ground yet. But last weeks' 80-degree temps coaxed us all out into the sun, I think.

There's a freeze warning in effect for the entire Great Lakes region as well as other areas of the U.S. tonight. It's early evening, and my heirloom seeds are all snug in the house already--and they might get a grow light treatment to boot--but I worry about the early rising flowers and the budding Japanese Maples in my yard. Of course more in trouble could be the mass crops of apples and asparagus and strawberries. Farmers won't sleep well tonight.