Grayma

My daffodills and squill are now blooming and the leaves are coming out on the lilac bush.

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Grayma

A less pleasant sign of spring- my 13 y.o. son is wearing tank tops or muscle shirts and proudly telling me how much his arm pit hairs have grown.

I think I will tell him if he does not stop, I will tie him down and shave them when he sleeps.

LoveBlue

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nyx

boys...

Steinhauer

Almost half of what I planted has sprouted:













And these are Canadian Goose eggs (I guess they become American citizens after the eggs hatch )

kokonut

Had snow two days ago...two inches of the stuff. Dumped snow in the mountains and valleys of Oregon and lower half of Washington state. :/

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"... turns out they are telling the truth."

rolling7

I saw on the news where they are in FULL BLOOM now.......beautiful!

rolling7

When my boy lived at home and was young, we had 4 mallards raised from chicks he got at Easter. They stayed free-range and gave us eggs much more healthy and larger than chicken eggs.

Steinhauer

I took some more photos today as I actually had time. I wanted to go to the top of Kennesaw Mountain and take sunset photos, but the road was closed. So, I made my way over to the Confederate Cemetery in Marietta, GA instead. The next few posts will have photographs taken earlier today from the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park as well as the Marietta Confederate Cemetery.

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Some Antebellum for you

Tousi

I've always known "antebellum" to mean "before slavery" so that makes those homes pretty dang old....

Reba

Wirelessly posted (BB Curve 9300)

Ante (before) bellum (war).

In this case, before the American Civil War.

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Tousi

Oic, ok, thanks, Reba.

rockin'robin

Beautiful pixs!...enjoyed these so much.

Steinhauer

If I get any extra time I will try to get more antebellum photos. Those homes were in Marietta - specifically, the Marietta Square.

I would love to own one of those and hole myself up in one and write the next great American novel.

KristinaB

Those were some wonderful pictures Steinhauer. Ya done good!!

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Jiro thought it was useless for me to take Latin in high school.

Jiro

I'll remember to make my future kids to take latin courses

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Steinhauer

Figured I should post the closeup of the "Lady in Black's" Memorial to her sister:

Grayma

Finally getting some more blooms.=) The daffodill and squill are gone, but I have creeping thyme (I love the name almost as much as the flower):

Calvin

Nice pictures!

Grayma

We get a lot of these, too, and I think they are beautiful.



Be honest, if you weren't from earth, just showed up, wouldn't you wonder why people plant marigolds and dig up dandelions?

Grayma

A basket of yellow pansies just bloomed outside the front door, overwintered from last year. Nice surprise.

Grayma

Wild violets are everywhere- purple, white, and yellow ones:



I didn't get a good picture of the white violets, but here's a close up of a yellow:



There are also some violets that are a kind of combination of the purple and white:

Grayma

I have only one small bunch of tulips and I have a funny story about them:



They actually grow just outside our driveway gate. The first year we let our foster sons/godsons play outside without somebody else in the yard to watch them, we walked the yard with them first to show them the boundaries, and told them not to step one foot past the driveway (the rest of the yard is well fenced and even hidden from the street, which isn't a busy road anyway. Only five households on a two mile stretch).

I came back inside, sat down, and the boys came running in almost immediately, with ALL my red tulips in their warm, sticky little hands.

They were SHOCKED that I immediately knew they had disobeyed and gone beyond the yard.


"You boys are in trouble," I said, as soon as they walked in. "I told you where to stay, and you immediately went outside the yard the moment my back was turned."

"no, we did not," said one of them at the exact same moment the other said, "How did you know?"

My poor tulips had only bloomed that morning.