EASTER WEEK = GARDENING!

Everything is in bloom early! So much just on the driveway. Wisteria . . . 
 

Bridal Wreath Spirea . . . 

Baby's Breath . . . 

The Scotch Broom has gotten so overgrown, only a few flowers bloom, so I have set out to cut it WAY back, taking out bushes to the back fence and up close to the driveway. It's a hard, dirty job, but someone has to do it and it isn't going to be Bob!  LOL

This is some of the progress I have made, and the more I clear, the more I like it! I will be transplanting perennial sunflowers this weekend and rudbeckia that have taken over my box beds. Also removing the honeysuckle and ivy and mimosa that have been growing there.

One of the problems with all the growth is I am finding mice nests and rabbit nests and they come into my box beds and eat my seedlings. I have been fighting that for years, but no more!

I started at this end closest to the farmhouse last year. I transplanted perennials and so many iris. It's looking so good!!

New beds are going in at the farmhouse with all these midnight flare azaleas and double Japanese kerrias. First I have to get all the grass dug up, waiting for rain and I hope we get some soon. We are in a horrible drought.

Right now my car is my greenhouse waiting for April 15, last frost date, so they can be planted in the ground.

Still have work to do on the box beds, but getting there. I think I have too many garden spots to care for lol!!

Other plants that have come in or in bloom up at the main house. Hostas . . . 

Trillium . . . 

Native Azaleas . . . 

And I don't even know what this bush is, but it is beautiful!

All the azaleas are in full bloom, but I post those every year, so not going to this year.

A small flock of goldfinches passed through and I was excited to see if they would like my new huge thistle feeder, but not a single one was on it. I had to buy a new one because a bear stole one I really liked years ago :(

After three years of wondering where the bear took my feeder, I found it deep in a wooded area where I was hauling debris from all the cutting I'm doing on the driveway. Hoping I can get this thing back together.  

No bears yet this year, I'm hoping the young chows keep them at bay. Good Friday hike in the plans and Easter brunch at the farmhouse! Busy weekend.

HUCKY BORDEAUX

Baby Huckleberry, the name he came with.
 

Then when we adopted him we saw his burgundy highlights.

That's when we decided to call him Hucky Bordeaux.

All grown up!

Cumberland Island 2011

Love Story 

Watching the mini series Love Story of JFK Jr. and Caroline Bessette got me thinking about our trip to Cumberland Island and if I had lost those photos in Hurricane Helene along with all the others.

I did, but back in 2011 when we went there, I did a post on this blog. That's one really nice thing about a blog just for yourself, you can look back, you have your photos and it is similar to a diary where you can read what went on. 

My kind of beach. Not a soul in sight.

We didn't stay at the Greyfield Inn, the only inn on the island where the Kennedys stayed, but we got a nice tour.

This was our accommodations lol, and all I can remember is how hot it was, I couldn't sleep in my tent and when we were setting up there were snakes hanging in the trees. I learned not to go to the coast in the summer anymore, always winter.

Some of the wild horses on the island

The African slave chapel where they were married. In the series one of the cousins says "This looks like the unibomber's shack", but I found it to be very quaint and I could see why they would want to get married here.

Back in the day, they were a couple I enjoyed following. It was a very sad day when the news came they were gone.