Abe's Army

Check out the picture on the Abe's Army blog at http://abesarmy.blogspot.com/. My friends Pam and Jo-An and I went to orientation the other night. You can see us in the front row. I'm the one in the black jacket (I was freezing in this cold May weather!) who looks like she's sleeping. Jo-An is in blue to the left and there's Pam in her cute purple outfit. The lady sitting on the other side of me is Jo-An's friend Brenda. Anyway, we're all going to walk walk walk this summer getting ready to walk Abe's Amble, a 10K race at the state fair in August.

Allium

The allium have been exceptionally pretty this year. All the bulbs are bigger and better. We think it's because we've had such good rain and cool weather this spring.

Really?

Corn plants. I guess maybe some people would want a head start on their corn crop. Just seems a little weird to me. Mark and I did a test one year with tomato plants. We planted a huge one with blooms from a garden center along with our little baby starts from seed. Then we waited for our first ripe tomato. No difference.

Tuesday Morning

Saturday Lunch

I love this picture of my mama. She looks like she is saying, "Yes, I know the table flowers are a little tacky, but the hummus is wonderful!" Thanks to my sis for sending.

Happy Birthday Mark!

When I said that it was Lilla's garden too, I never dreamed that she would dig a hole like this! It's about a foot deep and from the looks of it, she must have been after a chipmunk. No more unsupervised garden privileges!

Friday Iris

Thursday Rabbit Hunt

I'm happy to report the rabbit population has gone down over the last couple of weeks. Lilla and G are doing their part to take care of the garden. Of course, there has also been some damage from all the tromping and bounding and tracking. But hey, it's their garden too.

Lily of the Valley

Last year I harvested all the blooms I could, then had Mark cut the plants back to the ground. The blooms are precious, but the plants are thugs! But here we are again, and this little hand-tied is so sweet that I'm just going to let them run wild.

Happy Mother's Day

A Gardener is Born

Rainy Thursday Morning

30 Seconds

just flies by when we're having fun with Betsy. My videography skills are sad, really sad, so I need lots of practice with her.

Snoozing

Tuesday Betsy

She taught me how to blow bubbles again. I had forgotten how to do that.

Iris Season!

Visit with Great Grandma Emma

We went to see Emma who's just back from Florida. She had a great time there and told us all about her adventures.

New Betsy Pictures

I'm having trouble loading video, but here's the best of the pics. We had such a good time with her! Leaving was awful, as usual; but knowing she's coming here next weekend makes it better!

Washington Park

We took the dogs for a walk last Sunday. It was just beautiful. I would have taken more pictures, but my batteries went down. They're all charged up now so that we can take lots of pictures of Betsy!

Thursday

Wednesday

Springfield's Best Plant Sale

Sandy Gabriel has a big plant sale at the vet's office every spring. So Sunday morning we went shopping for a new daylily, a perennial heliotrope, and bear's breeches. Look at her bleeding heart. That's beautiful. Which makes me realize, I haven't noticed mine this spring. I'll have to look for it tomorrow.

Same Tulip, Different Day

Betsy Alert!

Check out Rachel's blog to see what Betsy is up to these days! http://rachljones.blogspot.com/

Mama's Forsythia

I can't wait til mine looks like this!

Spring!

Pine Knot hellebores

Handtied Bouquet

Cascade Bouquet

Sweet Peas

Hyacinths

Isn't this great?! I've found a couple of really nice bulb gardens at True Colors this spring. They do beautiful work.

Grandma's Garden

Change Proportion

We made pew arrangements in class last week. But I like it in this nice vase.

Bybee

V and I found this on one of our antique mall excursions. I wonder how it got to Springfield. . .

Flower Jewelry

Bracelet and ring from last week's class.

Beautiful Weekend

Here's another reason why Mark is the best husband in the whole world. He tilled the garden for me!

Sunday Betsy

This shot of Betsy and my mom makes me smile. Look at those bright eyes!

Friday!

Wednesday Betsy Pictures

Did I say that we had a good time? Such an understatement!

Rachel

with Zoe and Lucas. I'm going through hundreds of Betsy pictures, but I had to post this one right away. We had such a good time.