Fresh Air

This evening I sat outside and read until sundown.. I haven't done that in a while! It was ~ 60º out all day today, once the pea-soup fog burned off. That Spouse o' Mine and I noticed a day or two ago, the buds that have already started on our pear and forsythias. I don't want to discourage them, but I recall just a few years ago, this happening:

I think that's what they refer to as "nipped in the bud".