“It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.”
The day is perfectly lovely, warm and sunny. It’s an outside day. Every April here on Cape Cod is usually chilly with a wind off the ocean so the last few days have been rare treats.
This morning my landscaper and his crew descended on the backyard. They cleaned up all the limbs and branches which had fallen victim to winter winds and took down two small dead pine trees. Gracie helped. She pulled and chewed branches on limbs being dragged to the truck. I watched from my deck perch.
My father used to come down in the late spring with all his garden tools and clean my yard. He’d push his lawnmower through the tall grass in the backyard and tell me to keep it up after he’d finished. I always promised I would and most times I did. In the front, he’d edge the beds and pull weeds. One spring he planted phlox by the front fence as a surprise. Every year it still blooms.
The forsythia in the front garden was a gift from my brother and his then girlfriend. A small shoot from it appeared in the garden last year and it, like its older brother, is now in full bloom. The yellow is a welcome sight as the rest of the garden is still shedding its winter coat.
My mother’s garden was next to her house. We could see it from the kitchen windows. It was filled with flowers of all colors and varying heights. A statue of St. Francis with outstretched arms stood in the middle and offered seeds to the birds who visited. I wonder if the people who live there now keep a garden still.
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April 7, 2010 at 10:57 am
Hi Kat
Found you again a few days ago via “For the Sake of the Song”. And now today I find that “Keep the Coffee” has the distinct honor of making it into “Locust Street”‘s possible last post: http://inkhornterm.blogspot.com/ .
Still don’t know if I like the wordpress format as much, but sure do like having Coffee back online!
April 7, 2010 at 11:18 am
J,
I feel honored to be in the post but do wish Coffee wasn’t in a last post from Locust Street. Blogger is so destructive to many wonderful blogs, and I wondered if the powers that be ever stopped to think how many albums were sold through a song offered on a blog. It is amazing that my my two hands held the future of the music industry and, thus, had to be bound.
I too am glad you found me!
April 7, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I´ve cleaned my flowerbeds today. By that I don´t mean that I take anything away, I just cut all “leftovers” in smaller pieces and throws them back in the bed.
I once bought a forsythia and planted it by all rules there are. It didn´t flower a single time. So I dug it up and throwed it in the “shame corner”, not even caring to dig it down again. After that it flowered so beautiful every year, until a vole ate all roots one winter 🙂
The wethar has been sort of nice today. No sun but fairly warm. Tomorrow it´ll start raining agaian they say, so it might even be sunny 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day now!
Christer.
April 7, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Christer,
My yard looks fantastic, and all I did was watch! I can’t wait for the pictures of all your flowers. They are always so lovely, and I envy you them!
My forsythia got plunked in the ground and grew. I seem to have luck in that. My neighbors complain they use potting soil and fertilizer, and their stuff dies.
I think you deserve sun!!
April 7, 2010 at 1:28 pm
I’m contemplating cutting down the briar roses that are taking over my yard. The day is so lovely that I just don’t want to lose my relax yet.
The Locust St post today was disheartening. I will miss it.
April 7, 2010 at 4:45 pm
caryn,
I filled bird feeders and brought plants out to sun-that was the sum total of my exertions. I am about to go grocery shopping- a hated experience but I am out of everything.
It was disheartening. It seems we are doing great harm by posting a song or two.
April 7, 2010 at 4:46 pm
I get that bug to plant flowers every year and will try a tomato plant again this year. I’m going to pot the tomato plants and bring them in overnight daily to see if I can get a bumper crop without bugs. The plants would get sunlight all day in the driveway. That’s all I can think to do for my tomato loving family. A home grown tomato is the best.
April 7, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Z&Me,
Nothing beats a home grown tomato. Here in August people sell them on the honor system in small bags on tables in their front yards. I always stop.
I always had patio tomatoes until the year of the possum. He was constantly on my deck and Gracie was after him. I knew it was the tomatoes but Gracie kept them safe. I went away for a couple of days, came back and went outside to water my tomatoes-all of them were gone!!
April 8, 2010 at 9:00 am
Hi Kat, I am so glad to have found your blog.
Rob
April 8, 2010 at 9:25 am
With all this moving, I’m glad you found me too!