Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Springtime revelries

This morning I read that there is knee-deep snow back in Cowboy Country. So easily I have forgotten the mixed messages that spring brings in Wyoming and how my family often didn't plant their garden until after Father's Day in June. The news does bring my whining about the recent rains and colder weather here in Estonia to a halt, though. At least we don't have snow (and there seems to be no such extreme weather to worry about up here in the Baltics). My garden has slowly been coming to life with the bulbs I planted last fall. Here's a peek!

From 2011-05-10 Tartu backyard


From 2011-05-10 Tartu backyard


From 2011-05-10 Tartu backyard


From 2011-05-10 Tartu backyard

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Snowdrop Developments

News from my backyard on today, April 14, 2011





What is that noise encircling our home?

Screeching around our home, the cicadas that come with the onset of the rainy season sound like an army of broken hard drives droning in fr...