Gardening Season Begins

Although it is still quite cool

it is time to tackle the weeds.

We put in these strawberry plants late last summer

and the weeds are threatening to overtake them.

So the weeds were dug out

and fertilizer was added and dug in.

It is looking much better.

This spot along the garden fence is quite bare

and since we are planning on doing some

major landscaping changes in other parts of the yard

this summer...

I decided to transplant the delphiniums here.

I hope they will take well.

In between I am planning on putting

in some daisies.

I also prepped the spot on either side of the garden gate

for the Sweet Peas to be planted.

If it doesn't rain too much tonight

I should get them in tomorrow.

So gardening season has begun

and my garden area is slowly

being transformed.

I am joining...

Gina at The Shabby Creek Cottage for Transformation Thursday

Cindy at My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday

While He Was Napping for Weekend Wander

Fishtail Cottage for Cottage Garden Party

Between Naps on the Porch for Metamorphosis Monday

Another Tree Down

This seems to be the year for tree removal for us.

This spruce tree was so crowded and was slowly dying.

This was the year it had to come down before a winter storm brought it down.

As you can see, it had a lot of dead branches.

It was being stubborn and didn't want to come down but a little gust of wind at just the right time helped bring it down exactly where we wanted it to go.

It was just under 50 feet in length.

While I was waiting for some branches to haul away I snapped a picture of the birds in our neighbors treeing watching the commotion.

It didn't take long to strip down the tree and haul away the branches.

The main trunk was cut up for firewood.

I love the way having the tree removed has created more space within our yard 

and allowed more sun in as well.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber.  The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.  

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert~