3 posts tagged “flowers”

Everyone has their own interests. When the weather gets nice, my husband spends more time out on his recumbent trike. Me, I spend more time in the garden, trying to get things shipshape before the grass pollen hits and I am trapped inside.

Today was the first large organized group cycling event of the season, the Monster Cookie Metric Century. So Michael, Katr, and a couple other friends went out and rode their tails off. I got up to fix them all breakfast: slow-cooked oat porridge with all the trimmings, bacon, toasted English muffins, and such. It's always a good day when I get to cook for my friends and/or family.

After they rode off (and Michael will have pics and footage up eventually on his various sites), I took pics of the cats out on the porch in the spring sunlight.

The Welcome Wagon

Lucy, and her tongue

After a brief nap (I'd gotten up at 5:00 am) and a few boring domestic tasks, I went over to Fara's house to check on her kitties while she's on vacation. Maddy greeted me at the door with a reproachful look:

It's about time!

Later I took more pics of our cats, frolicking outside, and weeded and puttered in the garden. There's not much new to see yet, not until the roses begin to bloom, but the buds are forming and the flowers are not far off.

Tiny rosebuds

All in all, a satisfying day. Friends, food, cats, garden, sunshine... who could ask for more?

Cherry trees (including ours) bursting into bloom. Violets peeking from the crevices along the walkway. And over at the university, fraternity boys on their homemade Slip -n- Slide.

No picture of the last, alas (although I stood and watched for a while, grinning) but here's a few pics from the garden.

Sun through cherry blossoms

Garden path

I love my little gravel garden path.... sadly, Lucy also loves it; she thinks it makes a dandy summer litterbox. So there's a few dried cat turds here and there.

Violets in partial shade

The best thing about the violets is the fact that they all are descended from three little clumps that I dug up out of my mother's yard, years ago. Now they have naturalized throughout the entire yard and bloom most charmingly every spring as an unkillable ground cover amongst the roses and perennials.