spring rainbow in southern oregon

taken by a friend and neighbor, a neighbor if you are a flying crow

FIRST 2010 PICTURES OF MY SPRING GARDEN

TA DAAA!

My new Allium

I want to try drying them for bouquets

yellow rose buds and pinks


new poppy buds with raindrops still on them

Bekka checking out the rhodie newcomer

hostas and pinecones

Sally

come on....let's go in...it's sprinkling again

I woke up with a headache that waxed and waned all day....along with the rain showers...I kept thinking if they would get in sync I would be able to dash out and check out the garden....but nope...ain't happening.
I'm spending too much money on my garden. This isn't something you're going to see on a garden tour....you're not even going to see it if you drive by because I live deep in the woods....You're not even going to see it if you are the occasional visitor unless you go to the back of the house and peer to your extreme right out of a window....so what on earth am I doing!
Not only that but I'm not a garden designer...so someday someone is going to buy this house and look at the garden area and say OMG and yank the whole thing out. But...for right now, it's mine and I love it like my new BFF.
It's the only exercise I keep at for more than two days. I do wish I had started gardening younger when my back was young and strong....I never know if I'm digging my last shovelful or not.
Right now I'm digging up a small plot to plant giant sunflowers and birdhouse gourds....I haven't even shook the seeds out yet but I'm anxious to post pix of the coming wonders.

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I had my 76th birthday this week. The marching song, 76 trombones leads the big parade has been flowing through my head all week....and that's how I feel...like 76 trombones leading a big parade....I feel as good on this birthday as I did bad on my 40th....

(what a waste of time to feel bad on your 40th....haha)

but as the old saying goes youth is wasted on the young
Speaking of sayings...this from my granddaughter.

"If a cop in Arizona says papers and I say scissors, do I win?"