Warmer weather...more hours of daylight...colors...hearing the birds sing...mowing the grass...seeing neighbors outside...getting more eggs from our chickens...planting garden...the feel of fresh dirt between my fingers...new life...these are just a few of the reasons I love spring!
Here are a few samples of the colors I've been seeing and thoroughly enjoying this week...
...and yesterday afternoon I got the first part of my garden planted! I put in potatoes, onions, zucchini, cucumbers and two varieties of green beans...
The potatoes and onions should have been planted earlier, but it's been so wet that it just didn't happen. I put the tomato cages in place yesterday, so I'll know just where they're going; right now they're hardening on my porch until the danger of frost is over. In late May, the lima beans will go in, and the weeds will have started to grow vigorously. (if only we could do away with that part!)
It just doesn't get much better than this!
