This morning we were woken by thunder and rain.  Fell back asleep as I find the sound of rain comforting.   

Mom always said the snakes wake up to the first thunder.  I guess they are all awake now or maybe even last week as we had a day in the 80's and some in the 70's.  

That's o.k. as long as they stay out of my yard.

Dewdrops

My favorite with orange center 

Before the Forsythia even started to  bloom.  I brought in a few twigs picked from the shrub They bloomed very nicely on the mantle in den.  

bulbs planted in several pots this past fall.  I ordered them online from a bulb company and cannot find the names of the ones I ordered.  Oh well, they are tulips and two plants I purchased from Walmart for a dollar.  

More bulbs planted at base of boxwoods coming up nicely.

Getting time to put in larger pots.  I don't have a grow light but being on the porch with light did well.   I just have the natural light for them to grow.  

Parisian cukes need repotting now.

Never had any luck with bells of Ireland coming up.  So far so good with these.  I have a few I repotted and they are making it so far.  

Few days ago some clipping done on this box.  Not sure how much longer it can stay in this pot.  It's been in here quite a while as it was very small when planted.

Growing in big swaths in areas of yard are these pretty little flowers.  Corn speedwell, I believe they are called.  

Grass is in the yard somewhere I hope.    I will sprinkle grass seed in areas and maybe some dirt but getting a little tired of fighting it now. There is a lot of clover in some areas of the yard and that is fine with me.  It's green. 

Capes I made the girls for cooler evenings.  Addy loves blue and Genevieve purple.  It's supposed to get down into the 20's some night this coming week I heard.  Rainy and windy today.

Can see the brick where it was buried in dirt before the patio. It was painted with water proofer.  It does come off and will get to work on that soon.  Looks pretty bad at the moment.

Genevieve's cape

Don't know about anyone else but I have to keep constantly resetting the font and font size when adding a picture. Getting frustrating.  I also have to constantly have settings tweaked so the comments will come to my email address, they don't always and on those rare times I do check the comment section in settings, I see where I missed seeing a comment.  I usually rather respond to comments by email as I don't come back often if at all to original post.  Will keep trying to see if I can get the settings right   

~bh