This week in Spring!

And this is this week! I am thrilled to see new life coming out of my garden! I have been putting a lot of perennials in the front beds these last couple of years and now they are sprucing the place up with little or no effort from me... a couple of annuals, as I love my snapdragons!, and my front beds are full and ready to delight the eye for another year! now... on to the back yard...argh!

Wintery Spring!

this was last weekend...yes the long weekend here was covered in snow and frost...Mother Natures way of saying that it is all up to her... not us!

Teddy Bears Easter!

A little fun I had over Easter...loved the teddy bear from my shopping trip with Margaret... and the planter was gorgeous... truly fab! so I thought it would look good together!

I do like the way the colours worked out though... very warm and inviting!

Summer field trips...looking forward!

This arrangement was not, I repeat, NOT done by me...it was done by the very talented set artists at Fort Edmonton...but I thought it was gorgeous... a wonderful way to show the old and the new...soft colours and a nostalgic pieces... one fo the reasons I love going down there...besides the fact that every year we go, it is STINKING hot and there is no where near enough water to quench the thirst...thank goodness there is a copious amount of ice cream at the old fashioned ice cream shoppe to cool one down until they find the next window that makes one wonder how they did it back then!

I am obviously looking forward to my summer and all the 'field trips' we are always taking...I have a great friend to go with and we have a lot of fun traipsing about with her kids to all kinds of neat places....

This next summer, I will be helping a different friend with a new shop in Vilna Alberta...a sweet little country store in lake country...so look forward to those pics too!

the dream house...

This one is also enviable...can't you imagine having drinks on the front porch and reading a good book in the twilight? Lightning bugs floating around and the sounds of kids playing for all they are worth to take advantage of the final minutes of sunlight before heading home to bed...The green grass is so lush and emerald..you dont' think you could even step in it! Mind you, if you can afford the house, I am sure you can also afford the lawn guy who makes it look this good!!

This house is in the historical district of Sioux Falls South Dakota is really a gorgeous piece of archetecture.... I would love this house!!!I don't think I could handle the taxes though!

Spring!

How lovely to have tulips again! These beauties are not courtesy of my yard however...no no...way too early for OUR tulips to be blooming!

These are from my parents, otherwise known as the Parental Units, and were a thankyou for staying here for the last two weeks! They were a real surprise! It has been a long time since I had tulips in the house!

So, take care Parental Units, hope you have a lovely drive home...all 24 hours of it! Can you even imagine??? and all of it just by my two somewhat elderly but young at heart parents....

But I get to stay here and enjoy my flowers and the first vestiges of spring... how wonderful to feel warmth outside and to see green grass starting to sprout...( along with many and varied weeds...sheesh!) I will have to make sure to make note of when MY tulips actually come out for a look-see...seems to be later and later every year...time to move somewhere warmer, I am thinking!