Spring is finally here! (Page 1 of 2)

Jane H. wrote:

oh gee whiz, and you have a perfect garden and a perfect dog too/ have you no faults woman?
heck i thought for a minute i bet with a dog like that they have plenty of hair on the sofa but i wouldn;t be suprised if it were spotless.
just messing with you...that is some beautiful scenery. maybe one day i will actually be able to do a garden right but it sure feels good having given up the futile attemptsd for a while cause it was draggin me down for failing at it.

but yeah Spring has arrived. now that my allaergies are so sensitive its not alwasy as completely welcoming as in years past but i do really enjoy watching things green up.

when i was younger, my parents never gardened or anything and i just did not notice as many things. when i moved to where i live now 20 years ago, i was introduced to vegetable and flower gardening and farm living too. since then i notice and enjoy every little different shade of green i see and watching the fields and woods come into their summer colors. i find it hard to believe i never took such detailed notice of these things before.

thanks for the post and the pictures. i used to have an incredible flower garden with dozens of tulip varities i inheritded from my husband's Grandmother  but i simply could not keep it up even with spending extreme amounts of hours trying to do so. fortunately we did share many of the bulbs over the years so her legacy lives on. we have since moved so also its not a daily reminder of what i could not accomplish (fret not i do pat myself on the back for what i do accomplish). i want to do one again one day but i did learn that not much point until i can do it right and that gives me a little good feeling. anyway great to see those pics

off to kill stinkbugs and take generic claritinD

Jane, you crack me up! The dog actually can be quite a pain in the butt because she barks at every little movement she sees beyond our yard which can make you somewhat crazy and you would not believe the amount of dog hair we have in the house! And of course with all that fur, everything sticks to her and she drags it all in the house. My floors are a mess all the time! As far as the gardens go, though, at this point they pretty much take care of themselves. I have to rake the leaves off them and remove all the dead in the spring, and plant seeds in the veg garden, but once that's done I pretty much let them go. From now until June is the best time for all of it. By August it looks like a tropical rainforest and is totally out of control. Thankfully it all dies back in the winter to start over again the next spring.

Natasha

Still waiting. hmmm hmmm hmmmm hmmm :LOL:

Yes, and Denver sure isn't celebrating yet!

Spring is one of those seasons here in SoCal that just seems to fade in since we never really have a Winter. Now we are in the late Spring santa ana period with the associated wildfire season as ultra low humidity, high winds and dry brush combine to make our back country a tinderbox. Already fires are raging up north. More will surely follow.
Rick