Early snow,but timely spring plans
Even as the neighborhood was brushed with its first snowflakes of the season last weekend, the Friends of the East Boston Greenway were thinking spring.
Volunteers spent the morning of Oct. 29 setting the stage for next May's daffodils along the route of an old railroad bed that is gradually being transformed into a linear park. No sooner had they safely buried all the bulbs underground than the first fat, wet snowflakes begin to fall.
''The goal here is a thousand bulbs," said Valerie J. Burns, president of the Boston Natural Areas Network, whose organization teamed with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the Friends of the East Boston Greenway for the first such planting since the greenway opened two years ago.
''We'll get a real jolt of color at the end of April or early May" next year, when the flowers bloom a bright yellow, Burns said.
Karen Maddalena and Mary Ellen Welch of the greenway friends group said the planting was the latest in years of efforts to reclaim blighted areas and add to Eastie's parkland and public spaces.
''It enhances the neighborhood," said Welch, president of the friends group.
CHRISTINE MacDONALD 