First daffodil of the season!

There's another right next to it that's thinking of opening. I'm thinking by the weekend we could be in full bloom out here.

And as a side note, if you're going organic and using corn gluten on your lawn, I believe the time to put it down is just as the first forsythia bloom? (I need to double check that!) Assuming that's right, and the branches in cut just the other day have already bloomed in the house, and all the spring bulbs are starting to do their thing, it's time to get your corn gluten! I'll be headed to Ohio Earth Food just north of Hartville any day now to get my corn gluten, along with some other natural fertilizers for the garden. Ohio Earth Food is great - check them out if you haven't already!

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Mason bees welcome!

While cleaning up some of the flower beds this afternoon I salvaged and trimmed down some sedum stalks. Since they were hollow after winter, I'm hoping this cheap, homemade version of the mason bee nests you see in the garden catalogs looks more natural and inviting. I bought an overpriced nest years ago and it never got used. Then again, there's probably enough natural options around here for the solitary bees that they just ignore anything I put out. We shall see!

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Time to bloom!

I just cut these forsythia branches this weekend and brought them in - I didn't quite expect them to pop open so soon!

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Redbud teaser

Looks like it's going to be a good year for Redbud blooms!

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Amaryllis

Such a difference! Aphrodite is shorter and more colorful than Peacock!

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Cramped quarters

Why is it Brett gets the whole sofa to himself (Moxie doesn't count - she's too small), while Doogie, Daisy and Simon all want to crowd onto the considerably smaller loveseat....

I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It!

No no, not really....honest, I didn't!  But I DID like Glee's cover of Katie Perry's song on this week's Glee - pure fun, no stress, just a bunch of girls dancing around singing, touching and being provocative - what's not to like!?




Also worth watching in this week's episode, in addition to other fun stuff and very real scene between Santana and her abuela, was Finn's cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun".  Gotta say, it took a long time into the song before I realized what I was hearing - they changed it up SO MUCH, but it totally worked!

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Well this certainly has promise!

Sure, the word "blizzard" isn't in there anywhere, but I'll take it...

Clematis... Still???

This Nellie Moser just doesn't know when to stop - and i'm not complaining!

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