Since Winter has passed and I have "sprung into spring" there has been little time for posting on my blog. It has been a busy time with the yard needing much attention and my yearning for the splash of color that flowers add to the green background and blue sky. We also made a trip to Georgia to visit family and check out Callaway Gardens while the azaleas were in bloom. It was a very nice time and I have taken many pictures, yet not had much time for photo editing, and posting. I have begonias and impatiens in their shady places, my bright pink geraniums in the pots at the front steps, and for a change planted some snapdragons in a couple flower boxes with the dusty miller and sedum.
Leon worked for several hours on Thursday using our rototiller to break up the soil for planting a small garden. Now that the rains have come, it will need to be gone over again before planting, but hopefully the next time will be easier. Our soil is also known as clay!! So it is a challenge to grow beautiful plants, but we enjoy the opportunity to give it a try, and will be thrilled with our harvest. Tomato plants are in their containers awaiting their place in the real earth, as well as cucumbers, radishes, carrots, beets, corn, squash, sage, and maybe a pumpkin or gourd, who knows. If we plant them, they will grow!!!
I attempted to upload photos on here, but Blogger isn't cooperating, so this may be a photo less posting. I will give it one more try and hope for the best.
I have been pretty tired by the end of the day, yet the next morning I look forward to getting back out there amongst the flowers and birds and getting even more dirt under my fingernails. Yes, I do wear garden gloves, but some things just require them coming off and then before I know it I am really "into my yard work".
I hope to return to this blog before such a long intermission, but I do have very important flowers to tend to, and many leaves to remove, and lawn to mow. Oh I just love Spring!!! Great exercise, if one can move after 10-12 hours of stretching, crawling, bending and walking, nothing like those lackadaisical hours of winter, where I spent in the pages of my books, watching the snow out the window pane.
Happy Journeys through the fields of flowers. Hope to see you soon.
2 comments:
I am sure you and Leon loved your visit with your family...Gabe is getting so big...I am trying to make a little flower garden in our yard this year...This is the first time in 3 years that I have had the chance to actually stay home and be able to work in the yard...Emma and I gathered some of Mom's iris' she had in her yard at Custer...with permission of course from the owner...He would not let us have anything other than the iris', we wanted some of the beautiful white peonies she had at the front porch...They are going to tear the house down soon and just thought he wouldn't mind...but he did...So glad you got to visit with Adam's wife for a while...I always enjoy your "journey"...
Leon, that is Real Excerise. :-) I do something Similiar to that here. Get in car, drive about a 1 1/2 mile, park,walk to produce in my grocery and return home. :-)Enjoy, all that hard work-that is when it pays off when you are dining on something you had a hand in bringing to the table.I told D I think I will get one of those tomato plants that hang and grow, we could put it on the patio on one of the flower hooks.Sorry you had trouble down loading your pictures Virg-I only got a couple.W & D SCC
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