A year in the life of...

I had no idea what a year of my life would look like on a blog when I started. It was kind of fun putting this post together and looking back over the past few months.
This is the first picture that I posted on this blog. That was in February 2009. This is me about 51years ago. Geesh! I can't believe it when I put it that way.

January brought me a lot of frosty mornings and beautiful scenes in the garden. At this time I was thinking seriously of starting a garden blog and connecting with fellow gardeners all over the world.

Winter is this gardener's time to put things in order in her house while the garden lays sleeping. Taking care of things that she has sorely neglected the other three seasons of the year while she tends to her garden.

It's the time when she spends a little money on grocery store roses to cheer her until the garden gives her blooms of her own again.


Waiting impatiently on the spring that didn't seem to want to come in 2009.

She was happy to see the snow give way to rain in early March.

And

comfort a pouting pup that doesn't care for Winter anymore than she does.

Spring brought bare ground once again...

And bunny hugs for Easter.


Tulip time!

Flowering trees scenting the garden.

And bringing us back the bees.

Buds everywhere!

A lawn to mow...

and a happy dog once more!

Irises bloom

And the dogwood too.

Poppies are next to show their lovely heads...

Oh, and this gardener loves her lilacs!!!

The beginning of Summer brings naps in the hammock...

(for the gardener's husband, that is)

And peonies everywhere.

Trigger does love his pasture grass.

The roses start to bloom in June.



And the garden changes daily.

The birds have all returned now and are busy raising their families.

The gazebo got a paint job in late June.

White of course!

In July the roses take center stage.

Along with beautiful delphinium!

The gardener loves them fresh...

And she loves them dry.

July brings a hammock full of happiness!

(six of the gardener's seven grandchildren)

Angels

and faeries are everywhere!!!

and faeries favorite flowers...foxglove!


The gardener's house starts to fill up with past season flowers.

and in August the hydrangeas bloom.

August brought several needed rains in 2009.

But there was still plenty of sunshine to enjoy time on the porch.

Lot's and lots of time!

(for the gardener's husband that is!)

Sweet peas everywhere in August!

and hydrangeas too.

September brought a different light.

The kind of light you wish you could bottle and keep somehow.

September brought the harvest. Corn as high as an 'elephant's eye'.

and the gardener's favorite tomatoes.

The last of the flea markets...boo hoo!

Time spent with the family.

(the gardener's daughter Haylee and son-in-law, Joe)

And flea market smiles

(Joe and Haylee's little Maddie)

September dresses the garden in new color.

October brings even more color.

Beautiful color!!!

November...

stark November.

December is here again and with it the joyous holidays are upon us.

The month brought with it the snow to cover November's starkness.


All in all, 2009 was an awesome year for the gardener.

The gardener would like to take this opportunity to tell all who have followered her through this past year in the garden that it has been made sweeter by their company.