IN SEARCH OF SPRING

I am really getting antsy for Spring.   This cold & gloominess really need to go away.    To try and help pick up my spirits, I went out in search of some signs of Spring in my backyard today.   To my pleasure,  I found a few buds of hope!!   The lilac bush, dogwood tree and Kousa dogwood tree all had some promising looking buds on them.   I  could even see a little green, YAY!!  Now all the snow needs to melt away.
           

        Buds on the lilac bush!  I am really looking forward to its pretty purple flowers  

The dogwood - see that green!!

The kousa dogwood - its hard to tell, but I could see some green here too, I swear!!