I love to travel and see new places--but I admit--home is my most favorite place to be. :) I thought I would share a few pictures of what is currently around our little corner of the world. . .
Love this pink flower! I think it is a salvia, but am not positive. I bought it half dead on the clearance rack last summer at Lowes. Brought it home and planted it in one of my flower beds--and this year it is telling me "thank you" for rescuing it!
This blue flower came from the same clearance rack--they were both only $3.00! And the tag said they were perennials, so $3.00 is a great price! I am going to watch this year and see if I can find more clearance plants at Lowes. . .
This flower is an herb named "Rue." I bought a little four inch pot of it when I lived in Texas, because it is one of the host plants for Black Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. When we were moving away from that house, I brought some seeds with me from the original plant, and they grew me a new plant here--which has self seeded and grown a couple more plants. Now my Rue plant takes over more than half of my 4x8 flower bed, and it's working on taking over the other half! I don't mind, though, because I like the butterfly caterpillars it attracts! I have no idea how to use Rue in cooking for people--I grow it just for the butterflies!
A visit from a friend--a Carolina Wren. :) The birds sing every morning in the Spring and Summer time--and they sing LOUD around here! I love hearing them! Honestly, I have heard birds sing in other places, but NEVER as much as they sing here in our corner of Tennessee! Maybe it is because of all the trees around here? Even my mother remarked about the birds as she was visiting me in April. It truly is remarkable!
We had a shed built on our property so we would have a place to store our lawn mower (we have only needed a shed for the past eight years!). We had to build a ramp so we could get the lawn mower inside. Wanting the ramp to last a long time, we painted it with primer paint and waited for it to dry overnight before we put the top coat of paint on it. Well, the next morning when we got up, we could see we had had some visitors during the night. Maybe they were testing out our new ramp for strength!
This little friend was visiting in our garden this past week. I am not positive, but I believe he (she?) is a box turtle. His eyes were very red in color--strange looking to me, but I am sure to another turtle he was probably a handsome fellow.
And last but not least, the cutest of all--a baby bunny! Every Spring, we grow baby bunnies in our garden. This is the third year in a row--and even though they love to eat our garden up, they are so very adorable that I can't stay mad at them very long! But this year we did fence in a large garden area with bunny fence to keep them out of it. Don't worry--there is PLENTY of nice fresh clover in the rest of the garden area for them to eat! We have even been known to put a large carrot out for the bunnies.
Well, I hope you enjoyed the little glimpse into our yard. God is so good, to give us the beautiful things in our yard. And He created them just because He loves us!
Enjoy Spring with your Savior!
~Susan
