Happy Spring!

Windows are open, projects started, cleanup begun, sheets on the clothesline and it's so busy around here!! But I love it! So, not many words this post. Just a heart felt Happy Spring! It is beautiful! Life is good...

RIP Bruce Wayne

The laws of nature are tough to understand. I am freely admitting that I struggle when our smallest creatures pass. Dorky, I know! 
My husband and I drained our pond last week to clean it and prepare for the nice weather when we realized we lost a buddy. The pond was just about drained when we noticed...

Bruce Wayne that is. 

We try everything in our power to help our Koi and goldfish survive the Winter in our little pond. It is often challenging to say the least! 

We weren't  even sure where Bruce came from??

 He just kind of, 

well,

 hung out with the fish, 

around the rocks and the flowers. He was a cool dude.

He'd come and go. 

Like he had a more important day job...

Then he'd be back.

We would sit on the deck after a a nice warm sunny day and watch him jump from the rocks into the water. ~ And swim...
Not like a batman obviously ( Batman doesn't swim, hello!), 
but more like...

Just Bruce ;)

Most every night, we were on the deck hanging out with Bruce Wayne. Enjoying the warm sun.

There just wasn't enough mud on the bottom of our man made pond for him to survive the Winter. Sad. 

So, Bruce...

You will be missed. 

My husband said that if we meet another frog friend, we will have to transport them down the road to the swamp before Winter. 

Sigh...

If we only knew this about Bruce. 

Rest in peace Bruce Wayne. You will be missed. 

Not the best day in the books

Everyone has had those days when absolutely nothing goes right. In fact it goes bad from the start to, well... almost the finish. I always think of the children's book, "No Good Horrible Very Bad Day." Yes, I was having one of those. 
Until...

My mother in law sent me a package. I have been wanting this book for a while. I love the Floret Farm! What a sweet surprise! My dream! She knows me so well. Flowers, Flowers, Flowers! Things only got better when my husband came home and said, "Let's go for a ride."

He surprised me with a new rototiller! I am recovering from a herniated disc so... he said that he knows how much I love flowers, Let's make the start of the season easier. 

~Sigh~

The day was better already!

To top it all off, 

there were sprouts in my basement, and my  geraniums are loving life. So exciting!

Four, full flats of zinnias, YES!!

Sometimes it takes a no good horrible very bad day to fully appreciate a surprise happy ending to the day. Thoroughly thankful for the finish ;)

Starting botanical embryos

Take that lingering snow! I will start to press botanical embryos
( start seeds).  I will surround myself with flowering begonias, geraniums and store bought flowers!!

Seeds have been started and I am so ready for spring, along with everyone else in the north country!

Begonias are nice to have now in the windows because they will transition to the outside nicely and hopefully soon!

Every year I must plant about 100 gladiola bulbs just because they are so amazing! Sometimes a pain to stake, but completely worth it! Also, you can never have enough zinnias, 

Never! Nasturtium works so nicely around our pond and over arbors. 

Spring prints everywhere hopefully will jump start the scene outside.

I have planted 8 flats of mixed goodies this weekend that in about 6 weeks or so will be ready for their debut. Not too much longer friends...

Let the gardening season begin :)

The beautiful spring came; 

and when Nature resumes her loveliness, 

the human soul is apt to revive also.

 ~Harriet Ann Jacobs