A Writers View

Hello friends- As I sit in my writing studio looking out. I have a feast of a garden to get my creative juices flowing. This spring has been a basket full of blooms for deciding metaphors to use as I do free writing on poems. Poems, something new for me this spring. But am getting into the groove and going with it. For you gardeners, here is a snap of part of our garden. For Mary Lou it is a workout, but right now the hostas and flowers are winning over the weeds. As the warm air blows across our land we will see how the weeds do. And believe me the wind is blowing today. Hey, maybe, a wind blowing, whispering something, maybe that's what I will write about today. At least I'll try to keep the weeds out of my writing.

The top picture is of our Lilac tree, about ready to bloom. The second picture is of a primarily hosta bed around our garden house. It was a play house we won some years ago, and now with the play gone from the house, we keep plant materials inside along with dog training jumps, bikes, and what not. Mostly not. That's one of our summer cleaning jobs.

Friends have a good day. Get your creative juices flowing.

Japanese Maple - early snarly branches

Hi- Couple of other views of Daffodiles with sillas- You can see the spareness of the garden in between but looking closer I can see beginning of even some of the hostas. Mary Lou's Garden is full of different hostas. The first picture shows sillas with the snarling branches of the Japanese Maple that is yet to begin to green. We have it in a very protected location. Have had it for several years and it has grown. Looking forward to more of it and will share that as we go along.

Write your comments and or send me email about your garden. Please do put in the subject line- Garden- I get alot of email. Have a good day.

Early Flower Garden Close Ups

Hi- With good weather last week Mary Lou was in the garden planting peas and tilling the south garden. What I want to share with you today is some of the color we have in our early garden.

Pictures are worth more than words so here goes. Write us about your garden or interests.

Will tell you more about ours and us as we move along. Have a good Day.

Plant Potato Day

Hi! Today was plant potato day. One day before Good Friday. Not waiting. Good weather today. I didn't do much to help but took a picture! Hey how about that. Mary Lou is the Gardener. I am the writer. And Tasha our 8 pound doggie. She's been our garden dog past few summers after retiring from the Ring.

More about that latter. Posting a picture. An Iowa early spring garden picture. With my Nikon coolpix. Here goes.