There is very little color out in the snowy garden. These last scarlet berries on the highbush cranberry (a native plant)  are a dramatic exclamation. I guess I didn't do all the necessary dead heading last summer. This seedcase was left on a tree peony, a remnant of the last season.  But look . . . could these be buds on that same tree peony? A promise of the new season? The lilac buds are beginning to swell…