Signs of Spring | 2020

Despite the fact that life seems to have stopped in so many routine aspects - God keeps moving the seasons along, reminding me that EVERYTHING has a season. Nothing lasts forever. And there is SO MUCH beauty in that!! ❤

Ya know what they say about April showers ...

Loving the symbolism in this ... all the new green growth coming from the middle of spent, dead stems and flowers. 

Lots of green!

Keeping me company ♥

Yellow.

Roads go ever ever on,

Over rock and under tree,

By caves where never sun has shone,

By streams that never find the sea ...

♥

Well.

(So I guess we were kinda pre-mature getting out the deck furniture.)

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The Saturday Evening Post | Springtime + C. S. Lewis

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" ... This law was called the Law of Nature because people thought that every one knew it by nature and did not need to be taught it. They did not mean, of course, that you might not find an odd individual here and there who did not know it, just as you find a few people who are colour-blind or have no ear for a tune. But taking the race as a whole, they thought that the human idea of decent behaviour was obvious to every one. And I believe they were right. If they were not, then all the things we said about the war were nonsense. What was the sense in saying the enemy were in the wrong unless Right is a real thing which the Nazis at bottom knew as well as we did and ought to have practiced? If they had had no notion of what we mean by right, then, though we might still have had to fight them, we could no more have blamed them for that than for the colour of their hair."

~ Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis

Flowers ...

Primroses.

Fresh eggs.

Getting ready for the hummingbirds.

Raking grass in your bare feet ... best feeling ever.

The Treehouse Garden is looking great ...

... except now I need to move the swimming pool again! ;o)

The Tree House Garden|Part Two

And this is the current situation:

 Mom had been saving some iron rings from an old wine barrel planter that fell apart, and she had the brilliant idea to surround the irises at the bottom of the path with one of them. I love this! I dug up a bunch of them and replanted to consolidate them into a more concentrated mass, and now they fit really well.

My primroses have multiplied majorly the past few years, so I divided and replanted them spaced apart ... this area between the path and the tree is shady and perfect for them. I was

 excited to see how many I have now.

I edged the front side of the path with salmon and white impatiens:

And planted pink-and-white multicolor ones at the bottom of the garden.

Next up, I'm planting lillies of the valley and delphinium!

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The Tree House Garden|Part One

Not long ago, my Tree House Garden (although whatever existed of a treehouse in that old maple no longer abides among the living) looked like this.

This, this is what happens when you go to college, and then get a job. It is not all it's cracked up to be.

Please, ignore the big blue water trough in the background that serves as our swimming pool in summer. I had not the motivation to move it.

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Then, it looked like this:

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And then, I transplanted the lemon verbena, and it looked like this.

Please note that at this stage the watering tank is picking up and accentuating the blue of the forget-me-nots which are in liberal supply. Therefore it can now be considered an artistic addition.

And then I planted Impatiens ....

More pictures after I get out to water my plants in the morning and have a moment to take them!

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Signs of Spring|Blossoms

They sat down and he took a clumsy little brown paper package out of his coat pocket. He untied the string and inside there were ever so many neater and smaller packages with a picture of a flower on each one.

"There's a lot of mignonette an' poppies," he said. "Mignonette's the sweetest smellin' thing as grows, an' it'll grow wherever you cast it, same as poppies will. Them as'll come up an' bloom if you just whistle to 'em, them's th' nicest of all."

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::Yellows::

Yes, that is chicken wire ... I am odd, but I liked the look!

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::Cherry Blossoms::

 Rhubarb ...

::Verbena::

::A carpet of  candytuft::

::Succulents::

 ::Peony starts::

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"See here!" said Dickon. "See how these has pushed up, an' these an' these! An' Eh! look at these here!"

He threw himself upon his knees and Mary went down beside him. They had come upon a whole clump of crocuses burst into purple and gold. Mary bent her face down and kissed and kissed them.

"You never kiss a person in that way," she said when she lifted her head. "Flowers are so different."

 

::The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett::

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Hello, and ...

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

::Charles Dickens::

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