Sights and Sounds

Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Spring is my favorite time of year, and I have been enjoying all the sights and sounds of the season.  The butterflies are out everywhere, landing on all the flowers. My daughters walk around with long nets trying to catch them. If they can't catch a butterfly, they move to the pond where there are plenty of frogs to catch! Oh, the joys of playing outside in Spring!

 

 

This little cherry tree in front of the house is starting to blossom. I love all the delicate white petals. Last year, I made my first cherry pie from cherries picked fresh from this tree. I hope to do it again this year! Nothing is more delicious!

 

 

 

I still have a lot of daffodils blooming and the tulips are just starting to open.

 

 

 Meet Cupcake and Morning. They are the sweetest little things ever!

 

 

 

 

Wolfgang is working hard in the garden. He loves to trample all my flowers as he goes after the bees and butterflies! I am hoping he will make it up to me in deer patrol this summer!

 

 

This chair is my trash to treasure project! I found it in my aunt's trash!! She saw a twinkle in my eye that I had plans for it! It makes a wonderful planter for some daffodils.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a wonderful week!

 

Thanks for visiting,

Erin

 

My Grandmother's Daffodils

 

Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying your Spring!

 

 I had the most wonderful day! The highlight of my afternoon was a tour of my grandmother's garden.  My aunt is now the keeper of the daffodils and does a beautiful job tending her mother's garden.  As you can see, they are  loved from one generation to the next.  A love for gardening runs in the family.

 

 

I love that I can still visit my grandmother's daffodils.

 

 

My grandfather's boot rests peacefully amongst the flowers. 

It feels as if he is a part of this garden too. 

 

 

 

 

"Susan, after I'm dead I'm going to come back to earth every time when the daffodils blow in the garden. Nobody may see me, but I'll be here. If anybody is in the garden at the time they'll just see the daffodils nodding as if an extra gust of wind had blown past them, but it will be I." Anne--LM Montgomery

 

 

I love this butterfly house!

 

 

My aunt told me the daffodil clumps are probably 50 years old. Each clump seemed to have about 50 daffodils in it.

 

 My lesson learned from my grandmother's daffodils is that with gardening it is good to move slow and steady like a turtle, pacing ourselves each year as we enjoy tending our gardens. I've read that you should give yourself at least 15 years for your garden to mature.  It really is a labor of love often passed from one generation to the next.

 

I hope you enjoyed my grandmother's daffodils as much as I did!!

 

Thanks for visiting,

Erin

 

 

Garden Tour

 

Hello everyone!

 

I thought I would give you a photo tour of the garden as it is starting to show off nicely. 

 

 Join me for a tour! I hope you like flowers as much as I do!!

 

 

 

Bouquets are picked by little hands daily. A simple joy in the Spingtime. Not long ago, we were having to buy our daffodils at the grocery store. It is nice to pick from the garden again!

 

 

 

 

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."--Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I have many daffodils around the house and naturalized along the creek bottom. We don't lack for steep banks; they seem to thrive on a hillside.

 

 

 

 

We have lots of little cheeps coming from our sunroom! A sure sign of Spring!!

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my garden tour!!

Thanks for visiting,

Erin

 

 "I will not bring you flowers, but take you by the hand and lead you to them. Not a fistful of blossom, but a wood dappled with primrose, shadowed with violets. I give you the spring."
                                 --Pam Brown