Butterfly from last years garden

Pictures from a wayward camera



Last year was a good year for butterflies but I had little time to take pictures. But here is one who posed for the camera.
Zennias are a cheap easy flower to attract butterflies.

Is it spring yet?

I'm betting on spring, the ground was dry enough that I could till the garden this afternoon





I planted lettuce, radishes and beets. Maybe it will work and no more snow only nice warm spring days.

Another year

Procrastination
I had a lot of good garden pictures and pictures of a tree service cutting down the large pine in the front yard. but I waited too long and my computer died, bye bye pictures.

So I'm going to try and keep things more current.





last week we finally saw the last of our snow until the next time. I took this picture of tulips coming up through the snow, Now that is optimism

Spring Blooms

New garden spot

Plus my new garden tiller

It looks like a good spot with good dirt but like any urban location you run into interesting stuff, In this case the left side of the garden had a lot of fill with chunks of concrete, bricks and rocks

Spring is here at last, January extended untill March All cold and snow. February just forgot to show up. March so far has teased us with a day of warm sun here and there followed by cold rainy weather and Sometimes snow. March has not been fun.
Finally 2 days above 60 in a row with today warm enough to take your shirt off.

Tootsie has been looking at every sunny day thinking this day he can go out but up until today it has been too cold finally he got an afternoon outside in the sun.

Here he is eating a little dirt and soaking up the rays.

Salsa!

First tomato of the season!!!!

It isn't quite ripe but let it set in the window a couple of days and it will be ready to eat. The chilis are a poblano and an anaheim. Chop them up with the tomato, onion, garlic and fresh cilantro and you have Pico de Gallo.

I pick my tomatoes a day or two early so I get ahead of the critters.