Choice Morsels

Today's Garden Pic is a lovely shot of one of my Cheers Daffodils! They've been fruitful and multiplied, so I have a bunches of them blooming along the back of the house and in containers up front. A snipped several stems and brought them in to put in a vase. They have such a delightful, light powdery fragrance! Other garden projects I did today, despite it being cloudy, was laying in some of the Castle wall blocks that used to line the edges of the veggie bed in short rows of 3-blocks wide to form a walk-way between the new raised garden beds. Then I planted seeds in my in-ground clay pots: more red sorrell, spinach and container peas and radish seeds in front of each clay pot. Radishes are easy and fun to grow. They're delicious roasted or baked. Not just for salads.

A week ago, we drove to Indiana. The trees were still bare and it was winter. On the way back, the further south we drove, the more spring-like it became. Leaves were starting to fill out on trees. Flowering trees were in full bloom! Some sort of white flowering fruit-tree-gone-wild thickly decorates vacant fields along the road. (Pear?)  Pink Redbud trees! Dark red Bayberry shrubs. Patches of Daffodils gone wild on hillsides around the road! All very springy. Before we left, I did get this pretty shot of some my Cheers Daffodils!  They're clusters of tiny double daffodils with a fragance like baby powder. A extremely dependable bloomer every year! Also, along the drive home I did get this one shot of a Red-Tailed Hawk.  It was no easy trick, but it's a fair shot considering how far away I was standing. I had my telephoto at max. This was our 5th try I think. If I tried to walk closer, they'd notice me, since they have keen eyesight, and would ...