I am feeling very satisfied with the yard this year. 2 Years of hard work, and it has paid off. I love the fact that I am NOT trying to keep it all perfectly maintained. The back of the house is a lush growth of native plants(most of which would be considered weeds), and columbine seeds I have been scattering. I maintain a weed-eated path amongst the green so you can get from one end to the other, and I and keeping up in the mowing and edging (also done with the weed eater) around the rest of the house. However, along with the wilder backside, I am leaving spots of this lushness under the lilac trees, and in the cubby by the shed and laundry room. Now that the Hostas are filling out, and the ferns have leafed, It is looking down right gorgeous! So, it really DOES bring me pleasure to share with you- My Yard!

New York was amazing, partly because of the friend I was with. Okay, MOSTLY because of her. She is so wonderful to vacation with! I am working on slowly editing my photos (over 1000 of them) and will hopefully have an album up on Facebook for your viewing enjoyment in a couple of weeks. I have spent my first week back home working on the last bits of winter clean up in the yard, and planting my garden. We went from winter to summer heat here in less than3 weeks, so I am really trying to pace myself and not drop dead from heat exhaustion and humidity. I get up and get moving by 7am, and call it quits for anything strenuous by 11:30, Then I am in and out of the house all day to control heat exposure. So far, so good. This morning I went and peeked at the garden, and I already have some seedlings popping up. Yay! I spent Friday afternoon and early evening hanging out with the lovely Felicia, dinking around at her house, shopping a bit, and trying bubble tea in Sackets Harbor (very different from the one I had in Chinatown). I spent Saturday morning at Tom and Dawn's helping them fell and cut up a few trees, and then topped it off with a few hurs of catch up with a friend I haven't seen in a few years. Today it is cooler and cloudy, so I am going to finish a little yard stuff and go for a walk at Black Pond. The trilliums are up, and I want to take pictures!