Time To Grow

Today I finally sowed my seeds - indoors. This year I decided to make do with what I have and I think it's going to be just fine. The seeds I'm growing are poppies, forget-me-nots and an annual cut flower mix - I got them last year but did not get to sow them all.

About the poppies. I sowed 300 of them directly to my flower bed. Then watered, watered, and watered them away! None of them grew. Thank goodness I left 1 pack unopened.

Oriental Poppy Pizzicato Mix courtesy of http://www.burpee.com/

Annual Cut Flower Mix (above) and Anchusa Blue Angel or Forget-Me-Nots (below)

Courtesy of The Butchart Gardens, www.butchartgardens.com

DH requested me to grow some portulacas this year, which I still have to get.

So here's what I did today... I just used whatever containers I could find, pierced some holes underneath them, put some soil in, sprinkled the seeds, then a little more soil on top.

Celebrating Color

Color

Colors and dots

Color and megablocks

Can you imagine life without color?

Think of the color grey.

Imagine everything in that color.

Grey hair, grey skin,

grey cardinals, grey grass,

a grey house

A grey rainbow.

Please no...

Here's something interesting to read, it's about the spelling issue of the colour grey.

Have a no-grey day everyone!

Winter Blessings

Hello friends, I'm back. Was moonlighting at my other blogs. I thought the ice on the holly looked beautiful, so I snapped a picture.

Here's a poem for the snow lovers and snow wishers out there. Don't go, just read it, then read more of my post below it. God Bless!

A Winter Postcard

The beauty of a winter's morn -

when snow is fresh and clean;

Boughs on evergreens clothed in white -

a pretty sight to be seen.

Bushes are, themselves, a garden -

to be remembered in the spring;

A postcard scene on a winter's morn,

to me, is everything.

Joan Adams Burchell

February 21, 2005

http://www.alongpoetryroad.com/

Winter can be hard too. Last night we parked the cars in the garage, expecting 40-degree weather today. When I looked out --- more snow! I hope I can get the car out so Julian can go play at the mall. Here's pictures of him after our first snowfall. After this, we got him proper snow attire.

Our Boy

Backyard Guests Welcome Me to America

There is a flock of blackbirds hovering around our house for the last two days. They seem to be finding a lot of food on my yard, and my neighbors'. They also seem to know when my camera isn't ready, for they fly right in front of me when I am not paying attention.

This website helped me identify the blackbirds which happen to be orchard orioles. I'm just thrown off by the illustration on the website, because the birds i see are a combination of brown and black. http://www.whatbird.com/ is helpful for the new birder because one can identify a bird just by describing its size, body shape, bill, wings, etc. Forgive my ignorance, I've never seen blackbirds before!

We also had sight of the pheasant, going solo these days. He or she has been around the last several weeks, with a mate. Today it came alone... :( Again.. I've never seen anything like this in my life. The biggest birds I ever saw in my yard were my late grandfather's fighting roosters.

Spring In My Mind

Mary of Little Red House asked how I bring spring indoors in the middle of winter. Well, I sing spring songs to Julian even if we are in his winter session of his Music Together Class. I spend a lot of time dreaming of things I want in my life AND last night I cut out pictures of my favorite green things that I will someday grow in my garden:





What about you? What have you been doing this winter, when you're not blogging? !