Yes....Spring has Sprung

It is so beautiful right now. I thought I would post a little blurb since Ski did recently.

The birds are going nuts. We actually had a nest in our bathroom vent, but the babies have flown and we now have cages over our outside vents. I would have taken photos, but there wasn't much to see. We also found remains of two robin eggs in the back yard. The kids thought that these were cool.

We are enlarging the garden, but I don't have it started yet. I need to get some humus and then we can work on it. I have been to our Lowes twice and they didn't have any either time.

My Clematis that my mother-in-law gave to me surprises me every year. It dies back every year and, every year, comes back bigger. I have given up trying to train it up my mailbox without spending money so I bought a pretty, but inexpensive, trellis to get it halfway up. Hopefully I can get it the rest of the way up from there. I will try to remember to take photos when it blooms.

I am thinking about two gardening projects, but am also trying to figure out the cheapest way possible to do them both. So if anyone who is out there reading this has great frugal gardening tips, please share them with me!!

I ain't no pansy (but I like 'em)

Spring used to be my favorite season growing up. We lived for 7 years in the dairy country of NJ (yes it's not all toxic waste dumps--sheesh!). Our next door neighbor had a landscaping company so his property was AMAZING and fun to sneak around in. Down the street there was pond and woods everywhere with streams and creeks flowing through them. You could tell when spring was in the the air because everything started turning green and you could smell the wet earth. There were amazing creatures like frogs, crayfish, water striders and minnows in the water and every rock seem to have a cricket, worm or salamander under it.

My mom grew up on a (veggie) farm and her side of the family knows more about plants, flowers and trees than I'll ever learn. My sweet B loves gardening and I just can't help buying her a little plant or flower when we go to Lowes. We're slowly transforming our yard to be more garden-based and I love sitting outside looking at all the flowers and watching the birds for a few minutes rest after my runs. (BTW, did you notice my Nike Me dude is finally happy with me again? I stopped running for three weeks after my surgery in January and he gave me grief for a LONG time after. I'm thinking of running in a 5k in the beginning of May--we'll see).

Anyway, for those of you who AREN'T experiencing weeks of beautiful sunny 70 degree weather (deep breath........aaaaahhhhhh), here are some pics of some of the flowers we had around Easter (crocus--my favorite, and tulips B planted, and african daisies, and pansies I bought)