Hi friends,
I find myself unintentionally removed from the blogging world. Driving lessons, life coaching sessions, Bible studies, planting season … it all seems to eat away at any down time I have to write posts and read my favorite blogs. I find myself trying to play catch up at the beginning of each week for the past week’s worth of twitter and posts.
The show goes on, however, and … how shall I sum this up succinctly? … I can sleep when I’m dead. (As they say).
Sir bought me these roses, not to patch up another fight, but because I was having a hard day. I know, sweet, right? Two bouquets in a matter of weeks!
I had shut off the lights to go to bed and was about to turn off the last one upstairs, when I saw how pretty the soft light was against the stems.
Meanwhile, outside it’s blossoms, blossoms, blossoms.
Hazelnut tree blossoms
Only a couple sprigs of blossoms from the (much needed) radical trim on our gangly lilac. I guess we’ll have to wait a few years to get the full profusion.
Prunus (I have no idea how it’s called in English)
I’m not sure if I like these yellow bushes against the red brick wall
and especially against the pink prunus blossoms,
but bright yellow sure does brighten a grey day. So I planted yellow flowers outside of the bedroom painted yellow (don’t look at the weeds)
and purple flowers outside of the room painted purple.
I’ve already forgotten the name of the flower I planted, but I’m sure it’s a perrenial since I always opt for the lazy way out. Why plant each year when you can do the work once? Look at the pinkish orange inside!
This naughty little flower came up all on its own in our lawn, nowhere near where any of its kin were planted! I’m undecided whether or not to pull it up, but I don’t think I will; I like its rogue nature.
Otherwise, I will never get tired of blossom-strewn paths.
Our apricot tree is throwing its white blossoms like wedding confetti.
Oh hi, while I have you in this neck of the woods,
just look at what’s sitting on our well waiting to be planted.
The kiwis will climb up the arch we’re going to put at the entrance to our vegetable garden, and the grapes will each climb the four poles of the swing set.
Hey! Why not?
And here’s our smallest sprout.
There is just so much that’s wrong with this picture. The poor posture, the sitting too close to the tv, the hypnotized stare slowly erasing all former signs of life, the thin string of drool …
I’m so glad it’s immortalized.
I’m so jealous. I woke this morning to more snow. As pretty as it is adorning our trees, I’m ready for spring!
Oh no! Hoping you’ll get spring your way soon.
Sir is indeed a keeper. =)
I am enjoying your amazing pictures and an opportunity to glimpse life overseas.
I woke up to rain, but it wasn’t as cruddy as some rainy days can be when the kiddo is locked inside every day & can’t go play. It was very peaceful, we actually cuddled & listened to the rain while we watched cartoons (that never happens!)
I have felt like you the last couple days… too much to do and not enough time for writing. I love your pictures of spring. Such a cute boy! Kiwis… I have thought about planting those. You’ll have to keep us posted on how they do.
We just moved to a new house and have all kinds of things coming up in the yard, nothing as beautiful as your pictures. Thanks for sharing! I can’t get enough of the beautiful images!
Oh, you have so much blooming over there! All we have is snowdrops and forsythia.
Prunus refers to a lot of flowering fruit trees, but those blossoms look like flowering almond maybe.
I meant to say that it does have a fruit which is the color and maybe size of a black cherry, but is shaped like a prune. Everyone says you can’t eat the fruit but I wonder why. It’s not poisonous and my husband said it’s a bit tart, but it could be used in a jam. That’s why I’d like to find out what it is, to know whether or not it can really be used.
I love taking little peeks into your lovely garden.
Yellow and purple flowers are my favorite! I thought those looked like kiwis in the first picture, but I was thinking can’t be, kiwis don’t grow in France. Do they? I always thought them to be more tropical, but what do I know. Everything is beautiful. Good work!
I know! I was so surprised to learn that kiwis could grow here, but they do. Hope they’re good. I don’t think I’ll find out until 5 years or so.
Love them all, including the little one!
I’m so jealous of your blooms. We also have the lovely purple crocuses and the yellow forsythia… but they are FAR from blooming. Not even a bud on the forsythia and just little green nubs for the crocuses and daffodils. Not even sure if a lot of my flowering shrubs will make it this year… took such a pounding by our incessant snow. Anyway, inspirational signs up spring on your end! Enjoy! 🙂
Ha! Littlest sprout looks suspiciously like my children. And all children, I’m afraid.
I completely ignored the weeds – I was too impressed by the fact that you plant. And garden. Dang!
The littlest sprout is adorable. The hypnotized stare looks just like my son’s.
I love your photos….lovely garden 🙂
I just wanted to say that my late father used to say that he will sleep when he is dead. It made me smile when I read it.
Such beautiful flowers- and a cute little sprout, too!
My sprouts do some drooling in front of the television as well. What’s that expression? C’est la vie . . .
I’ve been “behind” with my blogging as well and missing it, but I hate the feeling of needing to catch up as I want blog-writing and reading to be a pleasure not a duty.
Oh I am so jealous of your blossoms! We are still dealing with the ugly grey snow here. There is a little bit of green poking through so perhaps there is hope!! Thanks for sharing your spring 🙂
Prunus is the botanical name for cherries, peaches, plums, almonds. apricots, and nectarines. They range from ground covers to shrubs to trees. Here in Charleston there is an ornamental peach tree called Peppermint Peach which has different shades of pink.
Your little sprout looks like he’s been resting from running you ragged all day!
Lovely pictures….warning on Kiwis. We planted 2 vines years ago and after years of no hint of fruit we found out that they had been mislabeled and we had 2 males. Each male can pollinate 7 females!! We didn’t have a female in site-hehe!! The only way you can tell whether a plant is male or female is by the blossoms that bloom once a year and last only 2 weeks/year! That’s your window of opportunity! Good luck, we planted a female 2 years ago and got 1 kiwi so far…there’s HOPE!
We got two auto-fertilized kiwis, so here’s to hoping! 🙂 We asked advice about which route we should go and the guy said there’s a risk with both, but the risk of not getting fruit is greater if we buy one of each than if we buy auto-fertilized. Thanks for taking the time to give me that tip!
I love your posts..
and your photos…
and your blog.
Thank you for the peace your posts bring me.
The sight of all those growing things does my heart good. I just now have three daffodils blooming, and that feels like a victory.