My new gazing ball with the pond behind it
On this warm day, I spent some time clearing out dead branches in this evergreen so I could hang my bird feeder up again
A red tulip about to open…it’s suppose to be a giant one, maybe so…
And finally…my viburnum bush is opening up it’s heavenly scented blossoms
…this pond will be running and the grass will be green and freshly cut. It is suppose to look like this. (without the weeds!) You can see a branch (one of so many that have come down this year) and what’s left of my broken gazing ball on the orangey rock there. Last year at this time we had lots of days of nice weather. I have another water container with waterlilies and they were coming up nicely last year to greet the warm sunshine. This year I see no signs of the tiny leaves and I fear they are gone. I know I lost some mums near my front door. I blame it on the rock salt that was generously put down and probably pushed right into my plants.
In the meantime, I can have colorful flowers on the table to look at and take photos of too. This yellow carnation was purchased almost a week ago and still looks pretty good. 
is how much these gorgeous roses cost….
It was so nice outside today-71 and sunny. I got out the rake (the plastic one that doesn’t retract or expand-blah) and worked on a few of the gardens. Bri cleaned up the piles after dinner. I also grocery shopped and ran across the flowers above.
We had a nice dinner of fried boneless chicken breasts with an eggy kinda dijon sauce (followed a recipe) ,asparagus, stuffing and stir fried spinach-not bad!
I love yellow flowers and Bri saw these in the Home Depot on Friday and brought them home. I appreciate his thoughtfulness, but I need a a rake too and there he was in the Home Depot. I have these in the kitchen and I had an ant on me Friday night-wonder where that came from? ; )
Bri took this photo. I have taken lots more and he’s the one who was buying all the camera magazines like he was dying to get into photography again. He’s always on the computer googling stuff it seems.
Anyway, I’ll plant these bulbs out front probably. Maybe they’ll come up again. Our anniversary is coming up-23 yrs!!!
(BTW, I have a collection of mostly Mary’s Moo Moos that have something to do with food on my windowsill there. Good eye there, Zoey! One is holding a pie, one has a lemonade stand, etc.) 
BTW, stopped the medicine after 4 days-I couldn’t function and we had the concert last night. I feel better though, just achy in spots. Still deciding what I’m going to do about myself-same problems for years and years and they just tell you to live with it.
This is nice news-my brother Ken really did a thorough clean up job at my mom’s for the past few days! He and a couple of pals were cutting down a tree, trimming branches, getting rid of debris-looks a whole lot better.
I knew taking lots of photos at the Philadelphia Flower show would come in handy!
The first is a 3-4 foot glass ball that had a hole at the top and had rapid water pouring out of it. We did different exposure settings of it. There is another one of the sphere on the 11th . The next photo is a koi pond that was also set up at the show. They were some big fish!
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I guess other than color, I love the different textures of plants. Here are some interesting examples:
All by it’s lonesome-a purple crocus 
Long needle pine bush blowing in the breeze
Swiss Chard that survived from last summer
…right this very minute-we are expecting a mix of different weather-snow and rain and all that fun stuff. My van is inspected and fine. : )
Please note that I added a ton more flower show photos to my Flickr album which has two clickable links in my side bar.
So here are some spring-like photos….
The inviting entrance to the flower show
This reminded me of Naturegirl’s lovely arrangements-so this is for her and I love African violets too!
A big tree tied with scarves and decorated with fishbowls of cut flowers-Gerbera daisies? 
Sean and I are headed up to Lancaster. Target owes him money for being overcharged on buying a t-shirt that he didn’t. We need to birthday shop for Brian a bit too. We will probably get him a new cellphone. He wants a gigantic can of Virginia peanuts from Reading Glass Factory.
Here are some more flower show photos. One is a gown with orchids on a mannequin (Brian took this) and of a design in a garden bed filled in by glass in the harp garden (you can see it a bit there)-I guess it’s smooth on the edges. ; )
Part of the dinosaur exhibit
Gorgeous garden wedding with the tables in the middle of a pond!
Water sphere
Yellow themed garden
Waiting at the station-silly people!
We had a nice time at the flower show today. We got to eat at the Reading Terminal Market and utilize the new camera to it’s fullest capacity. I won’t show you all 120+ photos, but here are a few of my favorites:
Brian and me at the entrance to ‘The Legends of Ireland’ Flower show. Mom and Sean were with us and he took this photo. (Um, Di pull your top down in the front there!)
A gorgeous arrangement and silver-what a combo!
Where we ate lunch as viewed from the Convention Center.
Collages & Creative Goodness 
