Sunday in Springtime -

Garden visitor -

 

It's not all about the flowers and the trees.........sometimes joy

 comes from the visiting wildlife.

Yesterday 'Chippy' the chipmunk was back for an early morning

 visit and seemed to enjoy breakfast under the bird feeders.

We only ever see one of these little guys which is much different

 from the dozen or more squirrels who drive us crazy.

Hope spring has sprung where you live.

All about the greens and a busy week -

Lately, I seem to run out of time to write here, and to comment - forgive me.

It's just amazing how suddenly the garden awakes and there is so much to do 

to keep ahead of overgrowth and weeds. With no rain we've also had to water

as the afternoon temperatures are really hot.

We spend a lot of time outside, then in the afternoons collapse on the porch

 with a cup of tea, then in to make supper. 

Not only a lot of pinks and purples blooming, plenty of green also

.

Bob is mowing this early morning before it gets too hot - high 82F later!

Note the urn with small conifer in top left - my favorite Carolina wren pair

have a nest in there. The fig tree is almost completely leafed out as

you can also see in that same photo.

There are hundreds of these sprouting oak trees to pull out this year!

Jasmine on the back fence just opening gorgeous yellow blooms.

'Snowballs'

Trumpet vine in all its glory on the side arbor.

Enjoying some green tea in the Anthropologie super sized cups,

or perhaps they're actually mugs!

Luscious, local, freshly picked strawberries enjoyed this week.

Will pop over to the farm stand for more later today.

A homemade strawberry rhubarb galette comes to mind!

Pollen much less at last!