YAH FOR MAY!

You can really tell when Spring breaks and Summer encroaches...when the temperature around here hits 89 degrees F. The flowers are so beautiful...azaleas, amaryllis, iris, water lilies, Confederate jasmine, yard orchids, and more. The birds and bees and lizards are everywhere doing what they usually do. I caught the lizards in the act! It is fun just to sit in the yard and be at peace with Nature.
Doves have made their nest in the flower pots beneath our front bedroom window. We peek out each day to see how the eggs/fledglings are doing.

Fred and I are beginning to work the yard to have it in shape for our 40th Anniversary Party we will be having the weekend of June 7th. It is a pretty yard, back and front, to begin with, but the weeds like it here as well as the flowers.

Two views of our back yard...one taken last September on a foggy morning. The second is the patio with the pond on the left and a daylily/fern flower bed with lots of Fred's potted plants.

With my bad knees I can no longer kneel down, so my work is much more limited than it used to be. But I can do some of it, while Fred does the rest. It puts a load on him. I am heading out in a few minutes to do some weeding using my yard stool. It helps, but I do get frustrated.

Let me show you some of the flowers in our yard. I have fun photographing them.

Hope your Spring is as colorful as it is around here. Have a Great Spring!

The row of red amaryllis make quite a show in our front yard. We also have red & white stripes and a giant called "Peach Blossom" in our backyard.

The south corner of our back yard is a cool place to sit and see what's blooming...especially neat when you are sitting in the midst of blooming azaleas.

Daffodils have been a special favorite. The gold King Alfred's are extra showy, but the Ice Follies have to be the best growers we have had. From 12 bulbs when Jeff was born (1977), we have a yard full and have supplied countless friends and Macon State College with yards of them.

We have a big rhododendron we have been babying along for many years. This year it gave us many dozens of bouquets of fuchsia blooms. On the right is shot of our purple Japanese Iris. They have been a show beginning in late February through now.



The azaleas and dogwoods in the front yard put on a show this April. There are a variety of azaleas in this bed, and all of them go nicely with white dogwood.