My mother and dad have an amazing wisteria that grows next to their garage. The vine is older than I am, and has taken over several trees, growing up and sometimes under the bark.

There is little more amazing than standing under that wisteria, after the rain, and in the warm air, and just breathing...

( Read more... )

I hear birds singing.

Better and better.

We're having a beautiful day today, one that found me seeing three robins in our yard and little crocuses and the sturdy leaves of hyacinth coming up in front of Mother and Dad's house. But the weather forecast is calling for what may or may not be measurable snow overnight, so I wanted to make sure that the backyard birds had their feeder full and ( Read more... )

We never did a lot of that, because it's my Dad's birthday ( Read more... )

Just a few flower pictures for a Saturday morning....And just coincidentally, they're some of my all-time favorite flowers!

( The first is for wolfette... )