ongoings on the outside...

Our garden is continuing to bloom and grow, although there is more greenery growing than there are blooms.  Okay, so there really aren't any bloom in the garden at the moment.  But we now have apples that are growing!

And plums!

And more and more roses!

And more rhododendrons (not so excited here)

Oh, and we are picking radishes!  Sunshine was excited to show off our first pick from the garden.

just the beginning...

Here is our garden!  Some of you have been asking to see what it looks like.  Well, as you can see, it is still very small.  Or short.  A lot of the plants are just starting to sprout.  Also, some of the veggies haven't been planted as of today still.  We did make it to the Master Gardener's plant starters thingy today.  A place where you can get starts for super cheap.  We got 14 plants for $15.  That was excellent!  Do you want to know what we are growing?  Of course you do!  We are growing:

sugar snap peas
radishes
turnips
broccoli
red onions
green onions
spinach
lettuce (3 kinds)
kohlrabi
tomatoes - roma
tomatoes - cherry
cucumbers
patty pan squash
yellow summer squash
zucchini
cabbage
carrots
peppers (3 kinds)
green beans
strawberries
apples
plums
sunflowers
nasturtiums
marigolds

I think that's everything.

sugar snap peas, radishes, turnips, spinach, red onions, green onions and a pepper plant

lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, vine zucchini and a pepper plant

kohlrabi, yellow squash, cucumber, green beans and I'm not looking at the key

same as two above

red onions, turnips and tomatoes

our garden plots!

extra lettuce and spinach

same as the one that I couldn't remember all of

Oh, and I should mention we have two little snake friends in the garden area.  I hope they like snails, which we have a lot of! (the picture of the four boxes is the first four boxes I took pictures of and I'm standing next to the small square box that looks half empty as I took the picture, if that gives you any clue as to what's going on, also you can see the last picture in that grouping outside of the fence to the upper left.

more of our flowers...

I am so amazed by all the blooms that happen at our new place!  Every day it seems like we discover something new and beautiful.  And all this beauty I should share because it would be selfish of me if I didn't.

This one was in the middle of a bunch of white azaleas.  I love that it has two distinct halves!  The bud just behind it to the left opened up looking the same way.  Amazing.

 I have no idea what these are.  They are in my neighbors yard and I LOVE them.  Anyone know what they are?

 Tulips

 Tulips

 Apple blossoms

 These roses smell like citrus fruit.  They are heavenly!!!

 Calla lilies (one type of lily I am not allergic to, I think).

 I just spotted this in a random spot.  Any ideas?

 A type of honeysuckle.

 One of the 20+ varieties of rhododendrons.

 Another rhodie, and I love the color on this.

 Rhodie #3.

 Not a flower, but a baby plum!!!!

And a little birdie friend.  It was kind enough to pose for me while it was gathering fluff for it's nest that is somewhere near our house.

buddy takes some pictures...

Buddy is still working on several belt loops for Cub Scouts.  One of the ones he chose to do is photographer.  And since I LOVE taking pictures, he naturally asked me to help.  I let him use our good camera (it's not a DSLR and if anyone wants to get me one, feel free - I'm up for donations) and I taught him a few things about macro, zoom and lighting.  I think Buddy did a really good job taking pictures.

 These are by our front door and they are more of a purple color.  Like I said, we were working on lighting and this was in the shade.

blossoms and a bug...

Our trees are blossoming!  These little pretty white ones are on our plum tree.  The pretty not yet open ones are on one of the apple trees.  I found tulips!  They are just beginning to blossom and this was the first.  The others are pink, peach, orange and I'm not sure because they are still opening.  And the ladybug was an attempt at macro that wasn't great because the kids made it fly away before I could get any closer.

sunbathing...

We got a lovely day of sunshine and so I sent the kids outside to enjoy it.  They didn't want to play, they only wanted to soak up some lovely vitamin D.  I don't blame them at all.

flowering...

Moving in the winter leaves you wondering what is going to bloom at your house come spring.  Well, since we had such a mild winter, things are already blooming around here.  Check out what we've found so far!