Spring Cleaning.
I was cleaning and organizing the shed (a veritable mouse haven) and found two growths on two of the interior walls, which I easily removed intact:

They are similar to wasp (hornet?) nests, but I see no entry point anywhere on the glob. The function of the gray spot on the larger glog is unclear to me. The height of the larger is 4 and 1/4 inches; the diameter of the smaller is 4 and 1/4 inches. There is no sign of inhabitants of any kind. What are they?

A bit of garden news: the raspberry that survived the winter is propagating, by rhizomes, I think, or perhaps by runners or stolons. I am not clear about the difference, but will read the more reliable accounts and I will eventually know.

Cold Nights. The past four or five nights have seen lows in the high 20's. I am concerned that neither peach nor plum fruit has materialized. This is what the blossoms look like this morning (I hope I am wrong):

The surviving raspberry looks good:

Four of my peach grafts also seem to be surviving:

My seedlings are coming along in their heated bed:

My spinach and snow peas are coming up, the creeping rosemary is doing well,

but two of the mice who have been feeding on the fertilizer (!) stored in my shed have gone bye bye:

Plum and Apple in bloom.
First the plum:

Then a bit of the apple (leaves develop along with flowers):

and finally two of my grafts, with new growth (WOW):

Updates
Old peach tree in glorious bloom.
Plum and apple trees thinking about it.
Old peach scions grafted on young peach looking good.
Artichoke and rhubarb, here they are:

Old peach tree in full blossom.

This is what the old peach tree (that produced delicious white flesh fruit) looked like a couple of days ago. I peaked in the hooded grafts. I won's say what I saw.
Yesterday I planted some red chard, some spinach and some snow peas. Today I planted more spinach. Garden season is in progress.
The blossoms on the apricot tree are spent. I fear the worst.

Adventure in grafting.
Today I did what long ago I had resolved to do. The apricot tree is in full bloom; the peach trees are ready to burst. I cannot wait for the Extension Division Master Gardner to come show me how to graft. So I went to the web and searched. I found an excellent tutorial by Tom Spellman on "Bark Grafts."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtXmBVsolY&ebc=ANyPxKo3OptscLd_3uHmsVVSL25PpWYH0-L-cjFqa95EuaaMiEr_G2SihaCwh_eCalW-Lxf9BOi9-l5REyFqZ6wcUa-Pg6Rdjg
It's 9:20 long and good. I am not sure that my six grafts will be successful because I had not until now researched how to collect the scion sticks. I know my established peach produces delicious fruit, but I didn't know how to collect the scions. So I fudged, and therefore I fear failure. We will see.
Here is a closeup of two of the grafts on a single branch:

and here is the tree with its six grafts (protectd by paper bags with air vents)

And here is a better picture of the apricot in full bloom:

So today marks the official beginning of my 2016 gardening season.

Today is the last day of February and the apricot tree is in full bloom!

Here is a sort of close-up of a branch: