My helper

With the warm weather our parrot demands to be taken outside so he can enjoy the sunshine and eat a little dirt.

Spring has sprung

At Last !

I have been waiting for it.

The first flower of the year.

Hope

There is nothing uglier than February in my neighborhood. All the dirt, trash and decay show for all to see.
But spring is coming and with it hope and renewal.
I took this picture this afternoon in my front yard, I just hope it doesn't get frozen back.

Catching up

I'm afraid I have tended this blog much like I tend my garden. By August it is mostly maintaining and pulling weeds. Dull boring work without the excitement of the new beginings of spring. It is my temperament, I am at my happiest starting a new project but the longer it drags on the harder it is to return to the task. My house is littered with projects unfinished.

So let me do some catchup.

After summer and the butterflys come Fall and the endless cleanup and leaves. Nothing says fall as well as the Ginko tree. We have two of them. They turn a beautiful golden yellow. One day you have a gorgeous tree full of leaves and then the next morning you have this.













Here is Alberto, a neighbor helping me do fall cleanup and lay down a little mulch.

another visitor

Food for the palate and flowers for the eye.

I love okra in the summer time and it is so easy to grow. All it needs is a sunny location and 90 degree weather. Several years ago, before my wife and I got married, I lived in a house that had a very tiny yard, 15' X 30', and all of it in front of the house. I planted tomatoes and Okra along the front fence next to the sidewalk.. I also, crowded in several flower beds in the yard. One day a woman walked up the sidewalk and paused looking at the okra. I expected her to say something about okra the food. But instead she ask me "What is that beautiful flower" and pointed to the okra. The Okra flower is a thing of beauty, a cone about 1.5 to 2 inches across, but it comes off of the stem at the base of a very wide leaf that often hides the beauty.