Perennial Friends

It is always such a delight to discover my treasured perennials returning to life in the spring garden. Those reliable herbs and flowers that give definition to the flower beds as soon as the soil begins to warm.

It is a special joy to me to find this beauty blooming with such vigorous growth- she was a gift from a very dear friend. She came to my garden from her garden, it came to her garden from her mother's garden, to her mother's garden from her mother's garden...

(Thank you, Wanda!)

After A Hard Day's Work In The Garden

Here's Lucy resting in the front yard after so graciously digging a nice big hole we transplanted this blue Butterly Bush into.

She's a hard worker in the garden. Every rose I have has been planted in a hole dug by these paws.

Old Blue Eyes???

This is what Lucy would look like if she had blue eyes. Right down to the gray hair showing now days on her muzzle.
This is Sierra, a finalist in the HSUS Spay Day Photo Contest 2008. Click on the link to see all the winners...
http://www.spaydayusa.org/winners08.shtml

Spring Gardening Chores

Ya Ya has been 'hot on the trail' of our resident moles.

In between games of Frisbee, fetch the ball, and (her very favorite game of all) annoy-Lucy-by-biting-her-heels.

Challenge Collages

Day 5: The worrier.

Day 6: The Chef.

Challenge (continued)

Day 3 - The Jewelry Designer. Day 4 - The Inner Child .

Spring Seedlings

After purchasing so many plants that did poorly in the garden, or just were not what they were supposed to be- I have gone back to growing all our plants from seed.

Behind Buddha you see 2 flats, each holds 36 cells. I have 8 flats started. (288 seedlings.)

These tomatoes and peppers are looking good and ready to re-pot.

It's alot of work but very worthwhile in the end. and I always have too many. It's fun to have some to give away.

Challenge

A collage a day for 7 days- using only one magazine.
I've been trying to add more text to the altered book I've been working on, so these have as much text as I could find.
Each collage is on an 8 1/2" x 11" page and are cut from an issue of 'Blueprint' magazine.
Each one is based on a theme.
April 1st- The Musician.
April 2nd- The Organizer.