The "lawn" of the old homestead nearby is carpeted with snowdrops (
Galanthus) in full flower. I wasn't able to take a new photo- a young woman was sitting on the front porch and didn't look like she'd welcome gardening chats, although I'm probably wrong.
http://naturalgardening.blogspot.com/2014/02/spring-is-definitely-on-way.html
The link above is a post from two years ago, with photos.