Amaranth showing its fall colors Click to see full size image Swamp Sun Flower Click to see full size image Click to see full size image Spider Lily Click to see full size image Blackie Sweet Potato Vine bloom Click to see full size image Elephant Ears Click to see full size image
Usually I make my pictures small with the ability to click on them to make them larger. I am so tired of winter and so thrilled to see some signs of spring that I will make these large just to celebrate the coming of spring. Can spring be far away? I found these blooms this morning when I went out to the mail box.
A yellow crocus peeking through the grass
A lavender crocus in a flower bed
My hellebores telling me that winter is almost over
I am glad you enjoyed the tour. I look forward to seeing your pictures. I hope you will start a thread of your garden and KY area just as soon as you get everything uncovered limb-wise, etc. It is funny, because i go out and take pictures of the same things year after year. It never seems to dawn on me that I must have exact duplicates plus or minus a few bees or butterflies stored back in my files somewhere. It doesn't matter though because each one is NEW at the time. One sparrow or bluebird looks just like the rest but each is a NEW creation that the Lord has made and that we enjoy again and again. None of that matters when we are taking our pictures. I sometimes wonder what the neighbors must think of me running all over the yard chasing a butterfly from bloom to bloom. I hope they see the camera I am holding. They probably think I am the blooming idiot in the neighborhood. So be it, when I have my camera in my hands I could care less!
Cajun, my yard is 3/4 of an acre and we plant as much in it as is sensibly possible. I must admit that each year we are trying to cut back on what we plant. We have created an enjoyable garden that has really almost made slaves out of us. Each time one of us starts talking about new plantings the other is supposed to try to reason with the person who can't seem to control the desire to plant and plant and plant some more.
I will look forward to seeing many of your pictures this spring. The flower you just posted is by far the fairest in the garden however. How could anyone ask for anything than more perfect than what I see in that precious flower you posted?
Elena, thanks for the cheerful little crocus flowers.Yesterday I found the first crocus shoot poking up out of the ground where the snow had been a couple of days before! Before long there will be some tulip and daffy leaves, and then flowers! Spring is starting to happen! Today's high is forecast for middle 30's and tomorrow into the 40's. Last year at this time we were completely snowed in, plowing the driveway was impossible, and after hiring a neighbor who has a huge tractor mounted snow blower, and having storm after storm undoing his work in just a few hours, we just quit fighting it for a couple of weeks. This year we had a more normal winter.
Cajun, it might not be long before I can get a horse out of the pasture and start to do some riding!
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Each time one of us starts talking about new plantings the other is supposed to try to reason with the person who can't seem to control the desire to plant and plant and plant some more.