A little touch of green

Green Primrose

Tasman Tiger -  Euphorbia

Greenish Tulips

Wordless Wednesday

Awwwww!

A handsome bird indeed

A large, robin-like thrush of the Pacific Northwest, the Varied Thrush is a characteristic bird of the mature, dark coniferous forests. Wandering individuals turn up regularly far from home, wintering around feeders in the midwestern states.

At last, I can believe Spring is here

Japanese Maple unfurling it's leaves.

Potted fern showing off it's pretty fronds.

The "can't kill it" rose.

I thought I had dug all of this rose out and moved it elsewhere, obviously I missed some of it and it is growing more vigorously than ever. Well, I will give it a trellis to climb, and leave it there, as it seems so determined.

Hellebores, primroses, grape hyacinths, ferns, daffodils, a toad lily, astillbe, and a couple of other plants share this small garden spot.

Tulips almost ready to explode into a riot of color.

Every day, when I go and look at the front garden, I notice another plant pushing up out of the soil. Very soon the whole area will be filled with all kinds of plants ready to send forth pretty flowers or interesting foliage.

I am so glad I have an easy care veggie garden spot

I have not done a whole lot of gardening yet, due to a long cool Spring, but there sure is promise of a good season ahead from the little I have accomplished.

The blueberry bushes have benefited from their feeding and if all goes well, we should have a bumper crop of blueberries this year.

I had to add the arrows to at least point out that there are teeny tiny plants starting to grow. So far there is one lonely little pea plant, top of picture, a few lettuce seeds have sprouted, center, and spinach along lower edge of tire.

I am looking forward to another bumper crop of strawberries this year.

Wordless Wednesday

Peek 'a' boo

This little doe was nibbling at the fallen birdseed on the other side of the deck railing. She wasn't quite sure to stay or flee, when she saw me with my camera in my hands.

Spring is here

Unexpected snowfall

I sure was surprised to see snow this morning.

There is a very cool wind blowing over the veggie garden, and even though the sun is now shining and the snow is all gone, it is too cold to spend any time in the garden.

The sun has kissed all the snow from the Hellebore.

This Hellebore has it's face turned towards the warming sun.

A spotted towhee perched on a branch of a snow covered bush.

How pretty is this old gnarled apple tree with it's covering of powdery snow.

Daffodils bowing their heads under their caps of snow.

Sunshine and warmer temperatures for two whole days

Yes indeed the weather was so beautiful over the weekend, that I went outside and started in on cleaning up the gardens and planting a few cool weather flowers.

These pots all hold hostas and ferns but look so sad and bare until the hostas and ferns start to make an appearance. I like to plant primroses and pansies in them to provide a splash of color as you come up to our front door.


The front garden was such a mess until I trimmed away all the dead foliage, cut back the ferns and picked up all the fallen twigs and small branches which came down during our last wind storm.

Now that the garden has been tidied up, you can see a lot of new growth making an appearance.

The veggie garden also got some attention, but there is still lots to do before the planting season begins.

A friend gave me two lovely blueberry bushes I had to find a home for. I decided to plant them on the outside of the veggie garden fence, and took the precaution of surrounding them using a PVC frame, usually used to cover one of the raised beds, then the whole thing surrounded with a heavy bird netting. All this to keep the rabbits from digging around the roots until the bushes are fully established in their new home.

It has been beautiful, but I have had enough

Perhaps when, and if the rain comes later today, all this snow will melt away. It is beautiful to look at but when you can't get around on the roads, then it is not so nice.

There are two hummingbirds who visit the feeder, and I am sure they are happy to find the sweet nectar to keep up their energy.

There is a little nuthatch on the suet feeder, grabbing some food before the greedy starlings chase him away.

My toes are cold!

I wish this feeder would stop rotating, it is making me dizzy.

And.... a very unwelcome visitor.

The birds and critters are well fed at our home

First serious snowfall of the season

It started snowing early this morning and did not let up until around 3pm this afternoon. When I heard that the winter storm was coming through bringing lots of snow, I immediately went outside to make sure there was plenty of food for the birds.

I captured a photo of this hungry hummingbird through the kitchen window.

The trees look so beautiful with their coating of snow.

A splendid way to start Thanksgiving

Just a few minutes earlier, I had looked out my kitchen window at very ominous dark storm clouds brewing, then the sun crept up gilding the undersides of the clouds in shades of vibrant pink and orange. What a wonderful way to start our Thanksgiving day.

Happy Thanksgiving

To all my readers, Have a wonderful thanksgiving day. Blessings to all.