…always lead to Monday?
(or, why can’t I rearrange the calendar based on my whims and wishes?)
Smile, it's a beautiful day!
Today I spent most of the day on my usual weekend chores around the house. It is one of the unfortunate drawbacks of living alone. The patio teased me all day, looking dangerously inviting in the dappled sunshine that visited on and off throughout the day. Sadly, I had to resist her temptations!
With tomorrow being Monday and my desperate need for clean clothes and food for work tomorrow, today was the day that I had to get ‘er done! So now, hours later, here I sit in a clean house with clean laundry and some groceries in the fridge. A good day overall!
Speaking of groceries, Whole Foods, may I say is an evil horticultural temptress! Why do they always have to have such cool plants? Again today, I had to fight back the temptation to buy every single orchid they had to offer. Seeing their Orchid’s delicate, yet dazzling, displays of snow white bulbs always sets me on to a dangerous road to disaster regarding my limited budget! I know that some day my willpower will fail, that my living room will flooded with Orchid’s, and I will be dancing on the razors edge of financial disaster; however, that day was definitely not right today!
Shortly, I am heading over to Piedmont to meet up with friends – should be a fun night, I just hope that the weather holds out. I will likely finish this post later tonight…
My little fuchsia @ work
Nothing too much new or wild is happening in the patio garden – the profusion of early-spring color from last week is still making me smile every time I look out my sliding-glass patio door. The pink and yellow snapdragon is growing and new blooms are popping out all over!
Time is not important to Ms. Snapdragon, lucky girl!
The hydrangea continue their early spring foliage development and fill me with visions of the a bed of deep blue blooms. I planted them late in the season last year and was only able to enjoy the blooms which were on the plants when I purchased them. The outlook is promising.
Hydrangea continue their rebirth - can't wait!
The rescued jade is looking very happy!
I have no idea what it is, I am hoping something beautiful!
I am finding myself eager for springtime to become more than a time I look forward to. Although we have had an exceptionally winter, filled with more spring like days than wintery days, I find myself antsy for a date down the road. May and June will be wonderful – I can already see the field of luscious, deep red, tasty strawberries bursting from the now dormant strawberry plants.
Will I try to grow tomatoes again? I don’t know, I want to; however, last season showed me that unless I can find a much, much, much sunnier spot, that I may only receive a tall green plant for my troubles. Yet, I can still taste the two isis cherry tomatoes that my plant produced last year and cannot think of many things that taste better than a fresh off the vine tomato (a possible second was the corn that my ex-wife and I used to grow at the house in Vallejo).
Maybe last year’s isis tomato will make a resurgence, she reseeded herself into a new container and is now growing healthily and happily in Mr. Pennisetum’s planter, she is a fighter all right. My type of gal!
Ms. Isis Tomato, clever girl!
I will leave you today with another splash of color from the primrose patch.
I hope that everyone had a great weekend!
Happy Gardening Friends!
Tomorrow is another opportunity to grow something magical! What wizardry bewitches you and plays in your dreams?
~ Noah
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