I will be taking an hiatus from the blog.

Dear friends,

I'll be taking the next few weeks off from the blog and hope to return batteries charged and ready to blog. Enjoy your summer, and hope to see you.

Until then,

Butch

The Weigela Bush is in Bloom

Here are two pictures of our Weigela Bush. There may be some wild roses blooming a wee bit later if we're lucky. We cleared the black berries that seem to love sharing the same space as these roses and I hope we didn't disturb them too much last year when we removed the berry vines.

The Rhododendrons are in Bloom.

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The Rhododendrons are in bloom in the front yard. The bush in the back yard comes in bloom about a week earlier due to sun conditions.

Here's a close up of the flowers.

These were partially in the sun for this picture.
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My birthday was a few days ago and a good friend sent this bouquet by delivery.

Here are the two colours of Columbine I have growing in this planter. The blue ones come up about a week later than the white ones.

Here's a slightly different angle.

Yet, another view.

Here's some more pictures of the Hawthorne trees in bloom. There are so many flowers that the branches become heavy laden with them.

Here is that mystery plant flowering. It appears so different throughout the stages of growth every year. These flower stems look like antennae and then, the start blooming. They have grown over night approximately three inches depending upon rain, etc.

This plant has been blooming in the solarium for about two weeks now, so, I thought I would take another picture of it.

I have this picture in the wrong order. I took it about four days or so ago and since then, more of the dark blue columbines have come up.

And here is a better picture of the flowers on this plant.

Hope you enjoyed the flowers.

Memorial Day and Remembering the Fallen

The Flowers of the Forest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqY79y-SCbA

May you rest in mother earth' s arms in a peaceful embrace for all eternity.

R.I.P

Hawthorn's Bloom, Bleeding Hearts Swoon, Leaving Room for the Columbines.

Columbines are starting to appear as the tulips say, "Goodbye."

The Hawthorne trees are just starting to bloom.

The Bleeding Hearts are also making their appearance.

One plant standing alone blooms as well.

Mint is up.

The Bird bath and Lilies that are not ready to bloom.

My mysterious Urn plant.

Little white flowers on long stems.

In the back by the large Fir tree is a Rhodie in bloom, the first in our yard.

Lilacs are blooming and the smell is wonderful!

The Lilacs are blooming and the smell is wonderful! I've noticed my neighbors who like to take a tramp through the winding streets linger as they walk by our home and they take in the Lilac flowers in bloom. Steve brought in two of the Lilac clusters and I put them in a wee cup on the kitchen table. Now that room is starting to hold the fragrance of the flowers.

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Enjoy!

May showers bring more May flowers

The Crabbe Apple trees just came into bloom recently so, before it began to rain harder, I decided to get out and get some pictures of the yard.

Here are the same trees at a distance.

The Maple tree in the front yard is in the process of producing its beautiful rustic red leaves. ( Directly behind the Maple tree is the Maple tree in the backyard behing the house. It has just opened its leaves as well. ) We have had some beautiful weather recently and all the plants have responded in kind. I'm glad I mowed the lawn yesterday because the next chance will be after the rain stops next week. ;-)

This Lilac bush will be blooming this year! Last year it made an attempt with just a few flowers but, this year looks more promising.

Here is the older transplanted Lilac bush that we planted originally in the back yard. Our mistake was that there wasn't enough sunlight at the time and it hardly grew for about five years until we decided to dig it up and replant it in the front. It has gone crazy in this spot and likes it very much. We should be having a lot of blooms on this bush this year. The neighborhood smells so nice when these are in bloom.

Here are a few pictures for my "mossophilic" friends. We have decided ( with some encouragement from my blogger friends ) to let the moss have its way with the back yard. This is but a small section of how much it has advanced during the winter months here in the Northwest.

More moss by the bird bath and flowers.

Here is that Maple tree mentioned earlier in the backyard and the moss growing on its tree trunk. Click on each picture to enlarge them for better viewing.

The lighter areas in the lawn are the moss patches that have taken over.

Again, one can see the different shades of green with the lighter green being the moss.

The Hawthorne trees have opened their leaves as well.

The wedding tree finally dropped all the little flowers a few days ago but the leaves filled in their place.

If you look carefully in the fountain, you can see areas of yellow, which is tree pollen left by the gigantic trees that fornicated with wild abandonment last week. ;-)

The tulips decided to make their appearance this week and they are beautiful as usual, in my opinion.

More to come later . . .meanwhile, I'm warm, and dry enjoying the light rain on a cool, damp Saturday in the Northwest United States.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.