Playing In The Dirt!

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was such a beautiful day with the sun shining bright and warm! 

So I spent the day playing in the dirt!

See how bright the sun was ... here is my shadow!

These are some photos of my garden it is looking a little sad.

I did do a lot of clean up

A few daffodils are blooming!

This is in the front of my house

I do have alot of wild onions and I do hate them

they are so hard to get rid of

Found a box of daffodil bulbs I didn't plant last fall

put them in this planter...hope they bloom

then I'll plant them in the garden

Bought this cement planter at a garage sale last summer

More of that darn wild onion

They are hard to see but there are hundreds of

Rose of Sharon start ups

To me Rose of Sharon is like a bad weed!

I've even trim the bushes so they don't bloom but of course

they still do...then drop their seeds and all

these little starter pop up everywhere!

This is the very shady side of the house there is a bleeding heart

and ferns here - I'll be sure and show it to you

when they bloom!

I really only have a very small yard but it sure takes a lot of time

to keep up with all the garden stuff !

Found these on the Better Homes and Garden web site
they are Sombrero coneflowers WOW they are really beautiful!

Source: bhg.com via Shabby on Pinterest

These will really brighten up a garden!

Linking To:
Tuesday Garden Party
Thursday Favorite Things

This or That Thursday
Rural Thursday

Fertilizer Friday
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

Warm hugs,

Spring and Daffodils

It is dark, windy and rainy here today so I decided to search for spring! Found these photos...so very beautiful!

And this poem

I Wander Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth 1807

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
 That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
 When all at once I saw a crowd
 A host of dancing Daffodils;
 Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
 Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but they
 Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: --
 A poet could not but be gay
 In such a laughing company:
 I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
 What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft when on my couch I lie
 In vacant or in pensive mood,
 They flash upon that inward eye
 Which is the bliss of solitude,
 And then my heart with pleasure fills,
 And dances with the Daffodils.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Warm hugs,