Sunday Snippet: The All Things Spring Edition

Okay, so maybe not ALL things, but I’ve got little to say today, I’m going to share some beauties from my yard (and my neighbor’s yard) with you. It’s been a long week. We spent most of it up at the lake getting ready for the contractor to come and tear out our old deck and start building the new one. That involved a lot of raking of old wet leaves and picking up sticks and brooming off the old deck of maple twirly things. I know we’ll be doing the twirly thing again next time we go up, but it was a noble effort on our part. I weeded, too, and our hostas are looking just fine up there.

We toddled over to Son and DIL’s cottage and gave their yard a quick once-over, too, since they won’t be up for a couple of weeks and for some weird reason, spring came early to the lake this year. I hope that means the water in the bay will warm up faster than usual and Grandboy and I can get in and swim sooner. We’re all looking quite tidy and ready for summer.

Here at our city house, things are a-blooming–the irises look fabulous, the baptisia (Blue Wild Indigo) is just starting to bloom and is absolutely gorgeous (it’s the one on the left in the collage below). It gets more beautiful every season. I wish it bloomed all summer but it doesn’t, sadly. Our lilies of the valley are already just about done, but I did have a few on my desk a couple of weeks ago when they were at their best. Now, the onyx desk vase has forget-me-nots. Aren’t they delicate and sweet?

Funny story about forget-me-nots. When Husband and I were married, we chose ivory wedding china (It was a thing in 1973–we were registered and everything!) with a blue forget-me-not border around the rim. It was really pretty. But we never got any of it as gifts because after we married in June, the company discontinued the pattern in September of that same year. When I told Husband, he asked, “Does that mean we have to be discontinued too? Do we have to get a divorce?” He was joking, of course, and we’re still here, still going strong 53 years later, but I thought it was funny how much stock we put in things like wedding china and silver and crystal back then. We didn’t choose another pattern. We used his grandmother’s old Currier & Ives grocery-store giveaway dishes for years before replacing them with the white stoneware we’re still using today.

Back to the gardens… Allium are blooming, so are the irises, and the lilacs. The peonies will be bursting with color by the end of this week. My neighbor’s clematis is gorgeous and we love looking at her yard while we eat breakfast. Pretty soon the primroses and ferns and daisies and bee balm will be up and I’ll plant my annual pots. Even more color will abound. We’ll do another flowers edition of the Snippet when that happens, okay? I do love sharing all the Midwest spring beauty with you. Enjoy!

Gratitude for This Week: The grocery store has a sale on peppers and avocados–I stocked up. Flowers everywhere! Book 4 is coming along. Carol and I are nearly ready for RAGT26. Got to see Son play guitar last night–he was amazing. Time with Sis last night as well–she and BIL and sweet pal Minnie all came to hear Son play, too. We loved seeing folks dancing to the live music–Son is the handsome guy on the left wearing the bowler and playing the green guitar, but you knew that, right?

Stay well, keep speaking out–this week early primary voting opens in a lot of states. Vote, vote, vote! Always choose kindness, and most of all, mes amis, stay grateful!