It Must Be Spring

Work on the garden continues – it’s that time of year … but progress at this point is not something worth a photograph. Preparations are being made for putting the hoop greenhouse up … but it’s not time yet. Meanwhile, these tulips had escaped their bed and were sacrificed for placement in the kitchen.

Picked and cleaned Ready to cook

The tulips have just begun to come out. The yellow ones come out first … and this is the first bloom. Deer love the flowers – these are behind a fence. The grape hyacinths are coming out – if indeed these are grape hyacinths. They were not planted; the act as wildflowers … but here…

The frame at least … Feels like an IKEA jigsaw puzzle but without instructions.Putting the first two frame elements together was the most difficult part: Attach 2 Part 1s together with 1 part 2. Attach Part 3 -which almost looks like Part 4 to the left side; attach Part 4 – not Part 3 –…

The new greenhouse still isn’t up yet; the ground needs to be prepped and there’s other work to do in the meantime. The remnants of the winter garden are still doing well … … until some outside force comes along and rips those poor plants out of their comfortable resting place, scrapes their skins off,…