I’ve been living in shades of pink and purple most of this month. Everything is blooming at once and I am grateful for their beauty. The front yard has a pink dogwood, a flowering dark pink crabapple tree, flowering quince, and a red bud. In the back I have lots of creeping phlox, red bud trees, iris, lilacs wild blue bonnets, and about seven crape myrtles leafing out which will bloom after the rest are finished. I love them all but the nice thing about crape myrtles is that the blooms continue for several weeks. …..and the azaleas have been prettier than ever this year.

Of course, where I live there are always cedar, oaks and pine trees galore. I have a favorite pin oak in the front yard. It is shaped so beautifully it is in the premiere spot to show off it’s beauty. I wonder if trees are ever jealous of each other? With the ice storms we routinely have some of them have lost their shapes by breakage but the only thing I lost here was the Bradford Pear. I will plant something else near where it was.

I have been doing a little weeding here and there. I work on the berm in front of the house in spurts. I don’t have a definite date to finish so I work until I’m tired of bending over them. I like to pull weeds the day after a rain…..they come up easily with the roots in tact. I have read that when you leave a weed, you will have it for the next seven years. If you pull them with the root hanging on, it’s a done deal.

Becky will come home in a couple of hours and we’ll mark and wrap our things we are taking to Harrison on Friday. It is fun to open a new booth and this one was made special for us. I haven’t taken any pictures since Rocky died but I think I’m going to get started again. It would be fun to show our booths to you on line and maybe a few of the yard.

I hope Spring has come your way by now and your world is fresh and new again. As for me, I need to get busy now and end our visit. Becky leaves in the morning for two days and then we go to set our booth up on Friday. I’ll leave you with a thought for the day………

MY CREED

I would be true, for there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.

I would be friend of all…the foe, the friendless;
I would be giving and forget the gift;
I would be humble,, for I know my weakness;
I would look up…and laugh…and love…and lift. ( Howard Arnold Walter)

Essentially Esther