Spring-Sprung

 

A quick trip around the Chaos yard and garden.

 

 

Last years Cilantro made it through the winter and is thriving! 

 

 

We found a sweet deal on strawberry starts from my boyfriend, Craig.  $3.00 a dozen – we bought three.

 

 

Another deal.  Raspberries!  Two rows fifteen-ish feet long.  One red razz’s and the other golden.

 

 

Know what these are?  All those buds…

 

 

Blueberries!  We found these beauties at our local Home Depot for a whopping $28.98 a piece. 

I started salivating as the memories of picking, cleaning and devouring those little round bits of heaven

as a young farmer so I wasn’t going to pass them up.  I think they might have come from a nursery/grower that went under. 

Either way, F.H.E. consisted of carefully digging out two burning bushes and relocating them, ripping out a slow maple,

four out-of-control junipers and two dead barberry bushes.  Just F.Y.I. those aren’t weeds covering the ground…

okay, maybe I have a few weeds, but it’s mostly Evening Primrose gone amok. 

 

 

Cheap labor.  Notice two more blueberry bushes on either side.  I can see my purple stained fingers already! 

 

 

 

A blurry picture of my Lobelia; this was the first dash of color.

 

 

Our thrice revised water feature.  I think we got a keeper this time out.  Sweet Marjorie, Vinca and Irish Moss is doing very well.

The bird feeders the Farmers made will be set to the left and I already have the red and white clematis to climb the pole.

 

 

When Costco had their fruit trees in stock, we picked up a four-variety apple

(Fuji, Honey Crisp, Honey something else I can’t remember and Golden - can’t remember that either.)  and a cherry tree.

These are the apple buds ready to burst. 

 

 

Spike likes to loaf about when were outside; always near by, flicking his tail as he’s laying on the cool concrete of the back porch.

Spike is as canine as a feline can be.

 

 

 

Our hedge blooms.

 

 

Lots of blossoms.

 

 

In delicate whites and pinks.

 

 

My yellow tulips.

 

 

“Green” tulips that look more yellow than green.

 

 

Left is straight out of the camera - naked, untouched and rather boring.  Right is glorified black and white.

 

 

I think this is my favorite shot.  Same as above, just cropped.  I like how the black and white bring out the ridgelines/veining of the pedals.

 

Sprung-Spring!  How’s it going in your neck of the woods?

Birthday Pictures

 

 

 

 

I was able to catch Miss Is and D.J. for some quick pictures.  There was a break in the rain, so I took advantage of what blue there was as fast a possible.

 

My D.J. all business; serious to the core when it comes to taking pictures. 

 

 

Okay, so he isn’t serious all the time!

 

Miss Is was more than willing to be in front of the camera, she even does her own poses.  Maybe I should be worried about that.

 

All the shots I took in the wheat field were under exposed - darn it, so I have to retake them.  I’ve been making these foofy skirts for the past several weeks when I get a chance to sew to use a props in photography.  They’re fairly simple to make, you just need a lot of tulle and slightly more patience.  More on the skirts in a later post.  I love the pop of red, the fresh green of spring wheat and puffy, moisture laden skies.  It really was just a break in the weather.  Try, try, try some more again.

 

 

Miss Is afraid that the bees in the trees will sting her.  It took a whole lot of bribery to convince her otherwise.

 

 

This picture would have been a lot better had I not cut off her legs.  If you can’t tell, she’s worried about falling off the fence. 

Just like her mother, she worries too much!

 

 

 

Now all I need to do is get Devin to cleaned up and in the mood to have his picture taken.  Teenagers – the saga begins.