The Guard Dog…

Why is the best spot to dig a hole and lie down in always have to be in middle of a flower garden?…To discourage her, I put bricks or rocks in her favorite places to dig…until there were just too many rocks…

Pink and Green...

It stopped raining long enough to get outside and take a few pictures...


The crabapple tree is in full blossom...

And the bleeding hearts are too...

There are a few late tulips still unfolding...

And the hostas are backing it all up...


...This is the only time of year that I think my yard looks really nice.

Fire...

Where there is smoke...and Theme Thursday...

...there is fire...I thought fire was quite fun to photograph...

...these shots were taken when I first got my new camera...

...they remind me that we could use another brush fire to clear up the yard...

Chionodoxa...

I had never heard of them when I was taken by surprise one early spring day more than 30 years ago by a yard which was carpeted in blue...The first three pictures are of that yard...

...when I see them for the first time each spring they take my breath away...

...Photos don't do the deep blue or the sheer number of them justice...

...They blossom just about the same time as crocus yet they don't seem as popular or well known as crocus and I don't know why...Eventually I planted some in my own yard ... the following pictures are of those I planted ...

...The plant is named for the Greek word for snow,chion...and glory,doxa...it is commonly known as Glory-in-the-Snow...

...Not only do they spread easily but they are so hardy they keep coming up through stones on the walkway and by the gravel driveway...

...The only plants I seem to be able to grow are like this...hardy, tenacious, unstoppable!