After several false starts, spring has truly sprung in north Georgia. My hyacinths and daffodils have shed their brilliant display and are focusing on soaking up the life-giving sunshine through their leaves. The lilac has also completed its brief show (bless its heart, it peaked while I was on a business trip, but saved some blooms for me to enjoy when I returned home). The redbuds, apples, and japanese cherries have finished blooming, as well.
Now it's the blue and white salvia in my flagpole bed that brighten my day, and the roses, both standard and miniature. The dormant grass has greened, making it easier to ignore the weeds that stood out like a sore thumb when they were the only green in the yard. Azaleas are brightening their corners of the yard, as well, a lush and velvety feast for the eyes.
I sold my riding mower in March, achieving my 5-year goal of not "needing" a riding mower in only 2 or 3 years. The time-frame all depends on when one starts counting. I was a tenant from late 2007 to early 2009, and thus limited in what I could do, yard-wise. So my yard transformation really began in March 2009, and two years later, I sold the riding mower. On that same day, my self-propelled walking mower started acting up. LOL Isn't that always the way? Thank goodness for helpful neighbors!
Several projects are in process, and deserve posts of their own, so I'll leave that comment as a teaser for them.
The thunderstorms blow through semi-weekly, usally in the middle of the night, waking me from sound sleep with window-rattling booms. The dogs sleep through it, thank goodness. But the warm weather is here to stay now, and I'll be moving the house-plants outside in another week or so.
I still need to clean off the back porch, blow away the yellow pine pollen from the back porch table, and start enjoying my morning coffee out there with the songbirds and my friends. Well, the "friends" part is virtual... I often get the urge to write letters -- the snail mail kind -- while sitting out there. So I pick a friend to kaffee-klatsch with, and visit with them via pen & paper.
But for now, it's time to earn my paycheck, so I must set aside my thoughts of spring projects and good friends, and focus on giving value for value received. That's hard to do when I'm looking out my home-office window at my young trees and seeing future projects, but it's part of being a grown-up.