I love spring time!  It was so beautiful here in South West Idaho where my husband and I live that I got to spend some quality time with my flower beds! Oh yes it was quality time for sure. I pulled old dead grass and other assorted plant life that either did not belong there or was leftover and dead. There is still a lot to do but already it looks SO much better.

I planted  a huge pot full of tulip bulbs (oh yeah bought the bulbs last fall and did not get them planted so yup they were starting to grow in the bag they came in). The big pot sits on the stump of a tree that we heartily disliked and cut down some years ago.  Usually here in our town we like to leave trees but sometimes when they are a Chinese (piss) elm you just DON’T want the dang things. They make such a mess in the spring and then they are prolific as all get out too.

Sometime in the past few years a maple seed blew in from across the street and now there is  young maple growing in my flower bed, its about 3 feet high already! Not sure if it gets to stay there or not, that remains to be seen.  The weeping cherry in our side yard has leaf buds showing and the peach and apricot trees in the back yard do as well.

Lots of crocus are up and I saw one with the cutest little yellow bloom already. Daffodils, tulips, lillies and iris are coming along as well.  I always feel such a sense of renewal in the spring. Thank you Lord for allowing me these annual pleasures, I promise to take good care of your plants.