What's in your garden today? Part I

 

I'm on the mend and back in the garden today. It's a beautiful morning, 

bright sunshine and cool but warming up. I need to really work on the back

 bed along the fence where recent heavy rains wreaked havoc. 

Lots of weeds and mini oak trees sprouting, jasmine vines beautiful

 and fragrant from their flowers, but really out of control regarding size. 

The climbing roses need reigning in a bit, so tall this spring and

 heavy with bunches of large blooms flopping everywhere.

Many busy bees on the roses - grand to see this early in the year, and

 I can stand there watching without fear of getting covered in mosquito

 bites for perhaps another week or so, they will arrive soon no doubt!

Grey Squirrel with a Hickory nut unearthed from last Autumn.

Better than devouring the birdseed in the feeders!

Northern Mockingbird : Mimus polyglotto

A favorite of mine, especially young males who sing at night.

Don't you love to listen to birds singing in the darkness of evening, or 

early morning before the sun rises?

Male and female build the nest and feed their young, 2 broods per year, 

sometimes more. Dining favorites are insects and fruit so they stay away

from the seed feeders, but love our fig tree!

Pretty, pale pink New dawn roses are great this year - look at the buds, 

so many blooming. I will cut a few to bring inside for the weekend. They don't

last long but are lovely until their petals soft petals fall quietly.

I was planning to show you more but that will have to be another day.

It's so perfect outside so I've been out taking photos, now I need to go out

 and work!  I must scramble into my gardening gear, put my sunscreen

 on, grab my brimmed hat and gloves and head into the

 garden to work.

Oh, I'm also baking a cake to nibble on Coronation Day tomorrow!

Will you be there?

Will you watch on TV?

If here in the US will you set your alarm and get 

up at 5 AM tomorrow to watch it live - or record

and watch later? I'll be up.

Or, maybe like some, you're not interested.

The pomp and glory of another British coronation, a ceremony

of deep tradition, a time when pageantry is at its best, is 

exciting for me. I was a child when Queen Elizabeth II had

 her coronation. I recall it well in my Devon neighborhood, Mainly the

 noisy, colorful 'street party' with tables laden with food, decorated in

 bunting, music from some source, and on a beautiful sunny day.

Later we watched some of the ceremony on our next door neighbor's

 small b/w television as my parents had yet to purchase one.

Fortunately tomorrow I'll be up before dawn and glued to the color TV

I'm hanging out my Union Jack - hoping it will blow in a nice 

sunny breeze. I know I'll be feeling homesick.