Piquets givrés (frosty posts)

I can tell that spring is coming. Not because of the weather, but because the vineyard is getting all cleaned up. The scruffy old growth is being pruned away and the rows of vines are looking all neat and tidy. Old posts are being pulled and replaced with brand new ones. The spent posts are piled up at the ends of the rows to be picked up later.

Monday's frost settled on the grass and the vineyard posts.

I imagine that the posts, along with dead vine trunks, will be burned in one of the vineyard workers' fireplace before long. It's one of the fringe benefits of working in a vineyard. We get some of the dead vine trunks because Callie likes to carry them home from her walks. We also got permission one year to gather some when they're piled out there, so we have a bunch out behind the garden shed. They burn well in the barbecue.