lilacs

I'm hoping you all can take a few more photos of the pretty 

lilacs from the garden. I have so many photos of them, and I knew 

it was forecast that we were to have a few days of rain so I took 

shots of them just about everywhere I could.

 

 

 

  

 As you can tell, I couldn't quit taking photos of these lovely lilacs.

They were just so pretty in the urn.

  

Maybe this winter I will share more of the lilac photos I took in the garden when 

I have nothing much to share in the way of photos.  

 

A few of the apple blossoms after opening and before the rain hit.

 Several things in the garden look a little sorry after the hail hit here on Sunday and I'm so, so 

glad I took the photos of the flowering trees and lilacs when I did, because

they certainly don't look like this know  :))))

Wishing you all a wonderful week!!!

The joys of spring

This is a post crammed with photos but very short on words, as I am working
between rainstorms, which have been badly needed here.
I love going to bed at night hearing the rain on the roof, knowing that
I won't have to work to sprinkle the garden in the morning.
I did get a chance to get some photos of the lilacs and blooming trees
and wanted to post them today.

The beautiful Snowdrift is in bloom and it's wonderful to be under it's branches daily
listening to the hundreds of bees working in it's blossoms.
Such an amazing sound!

Be back soon with more lilacs.

I did post on Grace Gardens for those who like blooms and blossoms!

To enter Grace Gardens, just click on the photo at the top right on my sidebar.

time in the garden

It's felt so good to get out in the garden for another year.

So much work goes into a garden in the spring, so I 

haven't even had time to do any kind of blogging or FB. (not that I ever do FB :)

I think FB is so much easier than blogging, so I really should))

It's hard to make myself even come in to eat when I get going out there.

I decided I had better post something before I let too much 

more time pass or I'll get so far behind that I won't 

be able to catch up. Not to mention that I know how many beautiful

posts of your's that I have been missing.

It's so hard to work everything in that I want to do, but especially when

the garden requires a lot of time right now, but it has been so good 

for my soul to work out here. 

The crab apple trees are in bloom now and things have just suddenly started

popping out of the ground in the past 2 weeks.

It's finally starting to look like a garden instead of a bunch of dry sticks

coming out of the ground. It always looks such a mess after winter

and in early spring. You start to wonder if it will ever look good again and

then suddenly it starts to burst forth.

I love it when the flowering trees are all blooming and wish

 it could last longer than it does. My sisters and I had a get together

last weekend and it was the first time one of them had ever been here

while the trees were blooming. I'm glad she got to see them.

I wanted to show you this Brandywine crab apple tree in the stage below.

I call it my gum ball tree because when the blooms first start, 

they remind me of them. They are big!

You'll notice it more in a photo later in the post 

of more of the tree, as I was about a day late getting the photos of it.

They then turn into the prettiest bloom, much like a tiny rose.

You can really see the little pink balls better in this photo and the photo above.

I love seeing it through the branches of the white flowering tree.

   

The tulips are all blooming now too. I love this one below particularly.

It's definitely my favorite!

It's getting a little late in the afternoon so maybe, just maybe, 

I will spend some time in the hammock.

See you soon to share some of the other trees in bloom.

sending hugs to you all!!!