by Ogee
It’s finally spring. This time it’s real. I know because the Tulips told me… the Anemone told me… the Grape Hyacinth told me… and the mud fest told me! “Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog.”
Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Anemone, Dogs playing in mud, Early Spring Flowers, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Grape Hyacinth, Tulips unfolding
by Ogee
“In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.” ~ Mark Twain Friday, I played hooky for a few hours and snuck out to the garden. Within minutes, I was peeling off layers like an onion and thinking it was time to move the winter clothes into storage. A week of mid-70’s in early February gets me dreaming about planting spring annuals, but I have wised up a bit […]
Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature Photography • Tags: Ceanothus, Early Spring Flowers, Garden in Spring, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Hellebore, Loddon Lily, Love in a Mist, Quince Blossom, Spring
by Ogee
Given that our Memorial Garden was under water just a week ago, I was surprised and amazed to find it beginning to bud and bloom. It seems impossible that the bulbs, plants and trees survived submersion for so long and still pushed forward to beckon spring. Mother Nature is nothing if not persistent. She has her limits, mind you, but a plant’s purpose is to go forth and produce the leaves from which it feeds and seeds it sows to […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Apple Blossoms, dog rescue, Early Spring Flowers, Grape Hyacinth, Narcissus, Nature, Persistence, Tulips
by Ogee
“The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” ~ Gertrude S. Wister
Categories: Nature • Tags: Bearded Iris, Early Spring Flowers, Gardens Goldens, Iris
