MARCH INTO SPRING

68 degrees on this unseasonably warm march afternoon!

joe joe lounges in the sun, tail wagging...

a "serious" portrait...

luna looking like an abstract painting...

outside, things are blooming 2 weeks early... 

bee shadow on camellia...

tiny early daffs...

hellebores have been blooming for a while...

few crocus have survived the deer this year...

some have been munched in this group...

volunteer itty bitty scilla...

FOGGY MARCH MORNING

where did winter go?  was it ever here?

witch hazel 'diane' has been blooming for a month...

tomato seedlings are enjoying their warming mat.  (same varieties as last year, brandywine, mortgage lifter, black krim, purple cherokee and dr. wyche's yellow)

i don't often shoot the potager from this side, but it patiently awaits planting in the morning fog...

this viburnum is in full bloom... can't remember the name of it...

daffodils are this high...

here's that viburnum flower... it is practically scentless...

spring is coming!

JANUARY? REALLY?

this time last year we were building with snow...

today it's 60 degrees F!

look what i saw today! a bee!

the jasminum nudiflorum continue to bloom...

2012 FIRST BIG SNOWFALL

we got about 4" of snow today...

self portrait...

the harry lauder walking stick is covered with buds this year...

2011 SUNSET, MOCKINGBIRD

last pretty sunset in december...

we had a few cold days with the birds puffed up round...

MERRY CHRISTMAS

harry lauder's walking stick decorated for the season...

we had such warm weather on solstice that one camellia bloomed...

jasminium nudiflorum is blooming...

peace on earth

WINTER BIRDS

i'm trying to keep the bird bath ice-free for shy visitors...

house finch...

mocking bird...

cardinal, eating tulip tree seeds on the deck...

POTAGER LIT FOR HOLIDAYS

happy thanksgiving.... we have so much to be thankful for....

here's the lit potager at dusk, so that colors can still be seen

we had a fantastic sunset yesterday, and beautiful un-november-like weather all holiday

FALL COLORS 2011

leaf peeping time... i took the dogs to the pond early...

the water was still...

like a leafy ink blot...

joe joe played at the pond edge...

the snowtober storm bent this tree over another...

luna under the forest cathedral...

butt of all evil...

sparrow libation in the bird bath...

tree men finally did the pruning... foggy morning before:

and after... you can see the little japanese white pine again... it's sad, but it will look better next year.

the potager, almost ready for lights...

ROOTS

marigold roots, flat because they grew in a crack...

last carrots...

we had a frost this morning. looking south from the deck...

the potager, which i'm clearing in prep for holiday lights...

SNOWTOBER TREE CARNAGE

historically early snowstorm hit yesterday, while the leaves are still on the trees...

we got about 5 inches of snow... after i took this photo, i shook the old dogwood and it was saved.

the bald cypress remains a potential casualty... this was yesterday afternoon, after i shook the snow from the tree...

luna managed to cut her foot two days ago, it got infected, and we had to take her to the emergency vet in the storm... i think we risked our lives for that cute purple dressing... but they took a piece of wood out of her foot...

this morning, before i released the bald cypress from its snowy bonds...

more broken tree mess, but pretty colors...

the bald cypress is recovering a bit by mid afternoon, after hubs went out and pushed it up with a tree-pole.

by late afternoon, the bald cypress is still rising up. will it recover? i called out tree guy, hoping he would hoist it up, but he's too busy cleaning up emergencies...

the cypress fell on magnolia 'ruby.' i hope she will recover. one storm has maimed my two favorite trees.

ruby was still flowering...

some halloween! however, we are lucky, as we only lost our phone lines and many are without power...