The first daffodil in our garden bloomed on the last day of the month! :)

The Neighbours

At 6:45 it is still 90 degrees.

hodgepodge

Sangre de Cristo Range

Canadian Rockies

Maughan Library, King's College, London

Pine Valley Ranch Park

the way to silently make you smile

Candied tulips

Earlier this week I watched that Food Network show, Alex's Day Off (or something like that?) and she picked up some candied oranges and lemons from the store. They looked really good. This tulip, which is a "Queen of Night" or "Black Tulip" reminds me of the candied fruit. We had a frost just after Mother's Day and all of the tulips looked like they were sprinkled with sugar. Mmmm...

Fields

Hiking at Deer Creek Canyon -- pretty fields of flowers all over!

Lately

I haven't been posting as frequently lately, though I have been taking as many pictures as usual, if not more. Partly I think that is because work has been getting more stressful and when I get home I rarely feel like being on the computer since I do that all day long at work. But mostly this is because my stupid, inexpensive memory card reader broke... Needless to say, I have a bunch of photos to catch up with. Lots of hiking photos and lots of spring flowers!! Soon I will have to do a whole post on my tulips. My mom and I really outdid ourselves this year with a variety of new types of tulips. You'll see sooner rather than later, I hope.

Hodgepodge, again

Along the way up Grays Peak

Rocky Mountain Columbine, at Meyers Ranch

Minis at the London to Brighton Mini Run, 2008

Hodgepodge

Cambridge, England

Boulder, Colorado

path to Greys/Torreys Peaks, Colorado

From the author of 101 Cookbooks, Heidi Swanson:

I've also found that photography is a good indicator for me - when my life is nicely in balance I shoot more photos. If I find my favorite cameras collecting dust, it's usually an sign that I'm over-extended in one way or another and I try to adjust...

I feel like my own life is like that as well. Lately it has been stressful and busy. I'm having difficulty grasping it.

Taken in Osterley Park

It's nearly time to plant the seeds for my own foxgloves!

spring on its way!

These appeared to be coming up first. Mom and I can't quite remember what they're called. We planted them back in October-ish (I think). They will be white and are "carpan"-something. Sadly, the popsicle stick we wrote the name on wore off...

Johnny Jump Up!!

Some tulips I found that are growing from under a rock!

More tulips! These we have decided are some of our established tulips, not of the bulbs we planted in the autumn. Very exciting, though, as I did not see these even two days before this. Flowers are so sneaky!

state flower

I hope My Pretties (see tag) will be this lovely this summer. I can tell they are itching to get out of the pots I have them in in the house and outside in the sun. But, not yet. In the front garden today, I discovered a Johnny Jump Up (aka Viola tricolor)! I also found some tulips coming up!!! I'll have to post those spring-is-on-its-way photos tomorrow...

meyer ranch park

(Conifer, Colorado)

I think, by the time I am thirty, I will no longer be complaining about heat, ever. I used to really dislike it, but now as each winter passes, the summer heat becomes more and more desirable. We'll see, maybe this summer will turn out to be ridiculously hot now that I've said that.

themed hodgepodge: all at the lake

oh, happy fridays off!

I know I have looked into what kind of plant (flower?) this is but now I cannot remember. My memory fails me often these days. Oh well!