Garden Textures

Spring rains, wind and then the weather breaks

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.

~ Shakespeare, Winters Tale, Act IV, Sc. 3, Line 118

Finally, daffodils up

This has been a long winter for most of the US. We have had our share, but not like the east. But still, the daffodils refused to emerge until now. Even so, it's not a full bloom yet. They are thinking about it.

Peeking Around the Garden

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
― Garrison Keillor

A November Moment

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. 

Albert Camus

Maple leaf fallen on ornamental grass.

A sedum putting on a show.

Blueberry leaves surround rusty petal.

Yellow jacket put its pedal to the metal, and lost.

Windmill Sunset

A September sunset with windmill. Gentle breeze. Was in the upper 70s today. Clouds but no rain.

Tomato Bounty

I've gotten several gleanings from the tomato plants I am growing in the Grow Box, which seems to work and would work better if this gardener was better at staking up the plants.