Garden Journaling

We had a great time over the weekend with a family gathering for my brother-in-law who is on leave from Iraq. We are greatful that he is looking well. Hubby and I took him out for dinner last night and had an enjoyable time.

I am excited that my son will be coming home from college soon for the summer. I am anxiously waiting.

I am frustrated a bit lately that my desktop is running out of room. All of these videos I am recording for the site are taking up a lot of space and I am not sure what to do about it. I only had 7% disk space left and it would not let me defragment the computer yesterday. I spent a lot of time moving things around to a backup drive so that I could reach the 15% free space needed to run the deframenter. Now with the room and the deframentation, the computer seems to be running better--for now.

My processor on the computer is from my original very first computer from sometime around 1999. My computer guy has just upgraded my computer and kept it going well (he's awesome!). However, the processor will not work with Vista and eventually I will need to upgrade. I'm not sure if I should just start out with a whole new computer with a lot of disk space or just get some EHD's for storage (which would be much less expensive). It seems this website of mine keeps sneaking in costs the more I go along.

Spring is really in full bloom here. As I've often done on my blog, I share photos of my flower garden as a journal. Some day I hope to make a scrapbook of them.

The azaleas and the Irises are so beautiful right now.











I love studying the details in the Irises. There are so many varieties and each is so unique.















As my regular readers know, due to the ice storms, we cut down the trees in our front yard and were looking forward to not having all of those helicopters to hand pick out of our gardents. Much to my dismay, all of the neighbor's helicopters blew right into the gardens anyway. At least they are not as thick as if we had our own trees.



A few weeks ago we replaced a walk in the backyard with new basic stones. Some of my handmade stones had been covered in mud. I moved them to just lay them in the front bed and I am enjoying the change. I like changing things up a bit as it makes things seem new.






I found this interesting as it is my Burning Bush. It appears that it also blooms and I had never seen it before. Aren't they dainty and cute?










I also love these every year when the bloom. Someone told me what it was on last year's blog post, but I'm too lazy at the moment to look it up.


I hope everyone is having a happy Spring! I so enjoy watching things change and all the surprises anew when flowers bloom. I don't like the surprise weeds though!