Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

April 2015

We finished painting the living room, kitchen 
and dining room.
I am tickled!!!
It feels warm and cheery and CoTtAgE-Y!


(more about that later)

But first, lets jump ahead to spring...
which makes it super difficult for me to 
be indoors...
The first sign of life in the garden and I am outside...
I CAN'T HELP MYSELF!!!!

For a long part of the year our garden looked like this....


 which I find so pretty... I just would rather not work in it.




Tucked in the corner outside our bedroom window
our  Waterfall Maple.


Fast forward a few months...
April 20th
our garden looks like this...
(horray!)


 My Korean Maple made it through winter!!
It always amazes me how things
can be so 'quiet'
and then suddenly buds start to emerge.
Beautiful.
Below is the Waterfall Maple...minus the snow.
I think it made it too.


A White Lilac Bush,
this one didn't give me a single bloom last
spring, so I didn't prune it at all and it looks 
like there should be a few this year.


These are the early buds to Amur Cherry blossoms.


Candytuft..I must spread this around my yard a bit more...it is so hardy and pretty!
If I plant things right, and use the ecosystems in our yard to my
advantage, I can get away with zone 5 plantings.
 Its risky though.  I should really be planting for a zone 4.
Blah, blah, blah!
:)


Now this is a shoot that I was given from a client at work..Hi Nelda!
Actually, she gave me two, I gave one shoot to my sister and kept this one.  
It is doing really well.


 If you look really close you can see that this Limelight Hydrangea
is giving me a few more shoots too! 



We have started on some major changes in our backyard
this spring.  My sweet husband has been breaking
his back digging for our new water feature.


I can't wait to show you the details,
but for now,
Enjoy your day!


Winter Break and A Happy New Year



Can you believe how fast this 
past year has turned into a memory?
Hope you have had some time to 
play...


We took advantage of a few moments...
but not nearly enough.


We live in a lovely part of the world.
Not only do we get some hot and sunny summers,


but we also get crisp, snowy winters.


Okay, not everyone would say that that is LOVELY, 
but, I would. :))


I hope you are getting the time
and opportunity to enjoy your 
neck of the woods too. ;)


Alright,
let's go inside and warm up!



We are getting ready for our 
New Years Fondue.
It is always so nice to sit and eat and visit,
and eat ....did I say eat twice?
It's a tradition that I have always loved.


Here are a few pictures of our 
 faux New Years table.




This was actually a setting for a roast dinner
before our eldest went back to school.


The view from behind
...open concept downfall....
 clutter is in full view!


I am wishing you a year full
of the good stuff...
what ever that may be for you,
family, friends, experiences, 
all the things you can take with you
when you go.



Have a 
Happy New Year!


Snow Day?


 Nope, it's not a joke...not an April fool's prank.


 Poor birds! 


I think that we will have to postpone the yard work
I had planned to do. 
It's all good, I go back to work tomorrow
and our house needs some major cleaning.
I had a roast planned for dinner tonight,
now I am soo glad, it is definitely a
roast day!
Hope your day is full
of everything you enjoy!

Abby
:)