Sunshine
Remember the words of the James Taylor song -
'I've seen fire and I've seen rainI've seen sunny days that I thought would never endI've seen lonely times when I could not find a friendBut I always thought that I'd see you again'Saturday was one of those 'sunny days that I thought would never end' Temperature reached 19 degrees according to the car thermometer.I am slow to say I never really go through a day without a list of things to do. Yesterday I had a plan but the plan went out the window because who would have expected such a beautiful day. So today's post will be a photo essay of flowers and such like.I went to the garden centre to buy purple heathers. There first thing I saw was beautiful blue hydrangea at a very reasonable price. (There are some advantages to a recession!) So job No 1 when I came home was to sow these. Bought no fancy pots, used old containers I had in garage.Job No 2. Sow some more herbs. Added Dill, Coriander and some Rocket"http://www.flickr.com/photos/itrusttommy/3455413634/"The next photo explains why I need to wash herbs before use! Barack retrieving his ball from the chives!Job No 3. Tidy this Rockery. This 'Rockery' contains loads of rocks taken out of garden before we laid lawns. A lot of them are covered. You may wonder what the little flags are. They are part of the electronic system that zaps the dogs if they think of leaving. We had a problem with them straying but after much training by Denis with this system, Barack and Charlie are now perfectly behaved adolescent dogs - well most of the timeJob No 4. Got these lovely black violas at the garden centre. When does one see black flowers? The twine is to keep out the nearly well behaved adolescent dogs. This bed had spring flowers. Barack and Charlie must have thought I put bones down with the bulbs because they dug the whole bed up. I'm hoping the twine does the job! Barack and Charlie are to read 'KEEP OUT'!I put this photo in to show how much ahead one single tree is in the beech hedge. This fella is way ahead of his peersSo started the day with a plan, threw out the plan. Went to garden centre to buy purple heathers and came back with anything but.What about Burns' line 'The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men ...'.Maybe Robert Burns meant to include women!
