I saw a bluebird going into the house I put up! ..bluebird of happiness… I embroidered one right in the middle of the quilt I made for the little baby coming our way. Speaking of which, I was hoping lilacs would be nice to cut for the baby shower next week. It’s been in the 80’s here and dry so I’m not too sure that’s going to work out.
Viburnums and spurge are looking beautiful and the apple blossoms are opening. Giant bumblebees are everywhere. I am glad I decided not to get beehives this year. I have a good local population and I didn’t want to meddle with it.
I’ve been planting out cabbages, bok choi and some herbs. I still have a a lot more planting to do. I should have started the kale sooner. I’m glad I did extra tomatoes though. I broke 12 plants by dropping a light on a tray and last night my husband tripped in the dark onto another tray on the back porch.
My daughter will be home from her first year of college this weekend, just in time for Mother’s Day.
handmade. homegrown. beautiful life 
Lilacs are so lovely to look at and smell.
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I think they are my favorite:)
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I like the quilt
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Thanks, Derrick!
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That little bird is a darling! Have a wonderful weekend with your daughter.
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Thanks, Laurie. Happy Mothers’ Day!
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Hope you have a really special weekend with your daughter. x
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Thanks Sharon!! I hope your weekend is great too
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Did you know that you can just stick the broken tomato piece in the dirt, water it, and you will have a new plant? We’ve broken a lot of tomato plants in the past as well as this year. Then, not only do we get the original plant (it just gets new growth), we also get a new plant from the broken stem. We love our bluebirds too and that one on your quilt looks mighty nice 🙂
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Thanks!! I didn’t think of that! Great tip. You guys are good gardeners. Think it’s cool your whole family gets involved . It shows! Your garden is REALLY nice
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Beautiful! My lilacs are still tiny buds! 😏
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Things are out of sync here. The weather has been too extreme, I think. The roses aren’t even leafing out yet. Strange
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Today is a beautiful spring day but who knows what tomorrow will bring! 🌺🌱
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What a lovely write-up Cynthia. Lilacs are my absolute favourite flowers, the scent brings back memories of childhood that I treasure. Lovely photos!
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Thanks, Agnes. It is the same for me! Lilacs were outside our kitchen door and another was right outside the bedroom window in my childhood home
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Love the sweet blue bird. Lucky baby.
I saw bumble bees for the first time when I was a resident at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, Washington. The groundsman’s daughter showed me how you can catch them and stroke them like a pet! I was enchanted. I don’t think we have them in Australia.
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Thanks, Mary! That is so cool.. I never heard of being able to do that with bumble bees! I have scooped them out of inside window sills without getting stung and they aren’t at all aggressive outside. I was just thinking yesterday, they are so big and fuzzy this year, they look like little animals, not insects.
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Yes, that was one of the most memorable experiences I had during my residency at Hedgebrook.
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This comment was so interesting. I didn’t know they could be pet….not sure I’m going to try it though! Lovely post as always, Cynthia. Congratulations on the nesting blue birds…that is hard to do!
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Those bumblebees we caught were not pets; we stroked them in our palms a few times and let them go. They didn’t seem to mind.
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I might try it.. Let me know if you try it first Ginene, lol.
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Love that little embroidered bluebird and that the birds are nesting in the box you put up. 🙂
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Thanks! Bluebirds are so vivid. I don’t often see them. I am so excited to have them nesting here now.
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Bluebirds are my favorite! That color of the males is just stunning. I haven’t seen one yet, this year; I thought I heard them a bunch of times, but it’s always the mockingbird – stinker. Funny story about the tomato plants; it sounds like the Three Stooges up there!
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It has been lately! Lol. Every day it seems something gets spilled or broken. Wonder why? It’s getting annoying:)
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The garden is looking great – it such an amazing temperature fluctuation in so short a space of time…mountains of snow to 80 degrees in just over a month!
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It actually hit 90 degrees here yesterday. May can be warm but usually it’s in the 60’s. When this passes, we may easily be hit with a frost and see daytime temperatures in the 50’s. ( I hope not!). The weather has been strange the past few years.
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I am so glad for you to have bluebirds. If they love the location they will be back year after year. They have come here but never stayed. The quilt is wonderful a meaningful gift.
It will be wonderful to have your daughter home this weekend. My lilacs are just starting to produce buds. Can’t wait for them to come out they are my favorite flower. Hope we get some needed rain soon a friend who lives less than 2 miles away had a downpour at 4:30 this morning we got nothing.
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Thanks, Carole!
It’s odd to have dusty dirt this time of year. No rain in the forecast here either. Lilacs are my favorite flower too!
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Wow Cynthia you really live in a little paradise! 🙂
As much as I would like to say ”I wish I had the same”, I am on the journey and need to be patient … there is still much to learn on the path and I should enjoy it anyway, still though, the city rat race sucks haha
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