Garden Joys

Chris is thrilled with our hyacinths. I just wish I’d planted them a smidgen closer to the edge of the rock wall! 

Spring Violets

They don’t have the scent of a French violet but they are still pretty and naturalised in our yard. 

There are purple and white ones. 


And the lovely dog enjoying the spring sunshine 

She looks sad, but she

Somebody’s Gonna Give Me a Treat Right?

It’s getting close to lunch time and I’m starving

A Spring Show

More bulbs are showing themselves. 

Daffodils, regular a minuscule. 

A collection of blue: an iris reticulata (gone over), a blue hyacinth and something else that was here already in the garden that we were introduced to as ‘stars’. 

And the bank above The end of the Rockwall, which we covered in bark chip last fall, and the bulbs show up against beautifully.  A miscellany of things - some were literally a mystery because they came in a mixed spring bulbs collection! 

Crocus I recognise. 

These icy blue things? Pretty!

Almost Total Eclipse

This is a mere three percent of the sun. It was oddly dimmed, but not exactly twilight. 

I took a selfie.