Futility Now

It’s true.  I did take photographs of our gardening efforts.  Here are some of them:

Front o’ the house.

Proof positive.

Back of the house is pretty barren at this point.

Now for some close ups.  We do have some exciting things going on.  Lilacs, peonies, columbine, and rhododendron up now, and lilies and iris on the way.

I took this shot a few days prior.  I did not know peonies could be blowsy quite on this scale, with blooms as big as my face.

One last thing: it’s true I haven’t made much of an appearance here of late.  I have been diverting my energies on my blog and classroom pages thisaway (thanks, jmags, for the site) as I’m now officially gearing up for the Portland Open Studio Tour for this fall. So it hasn’t been all bon bons and manicures or anything…

Because of my hilariously rural upbringing, I had never mowed a lawn until yesterday. Nevertheless, nothing important was damaged, and I think that I got close enough to the margins that it’s no longer the single most hilarious thing about the yard. That is now the fact that everything is totally choked and overgrown.

Naturally, we’ve been trying to get to that too. Yesterday we managed to fill up our entire yard-waste bin, which isn’t nothing, but it’s not very close to done either. I think Hazel took some pictures. Hopefully she’ll put them up here, because I have to admit that discussing the yard without photos comes off a little sterile.