Took some some photos of this early flowering Magnolia liliiflora
in the garden yesterday. One of the earliest multi-stemmed
flowering trees in our area of the USA, it blooms from late winter
and is a beautiful first indicator of Spring, with flowers opening
before the shiny green leaves appear . . . . . . . I think you will
agree it's lovely.
Today we plan to take down the birdhouse and clean it out ready for
nesting birds this coming Spring. We were outside in balmy high 60's
yesterday making rather a slow start cleaning up the garden.
This week has been a busy one but we managed to squeeze in a little
work around the front beds, mainly pruning shrubs and fertilizing the
Spring bulbs scattered around and poking up through the leaf litter.
Cleaned up the porch area and the small fountain in front of it
which is now a bird bath since the motor died some years ago!
Squirrels and chipmunks also drink there so like to keep the water
refreshed. Took down the Valentine flag and hung this colorful
blossom and cardinals welcome flag.
Late afternoon we ended up here on the porch with a peppermint
hot chocolate and the last of the yummy Trader Joe's choco-peppermint
Joe-Joe's from Christmas - guess the calories worked off in the garden
were soon replaced! Oh well that's life.
Off to the garden now, high will be 74F by early afternoon.
Rain coming back tomorrow so we must . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . “Make hay while the sun shines" An old saying that's considered a proverb. A proverb is an old, usually short saying that communicates good advice or something true. If you make hay while the sun shines, it means that you take advantage of the chance to do something while conditions are good.
Happy day.
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