Garden 2016

My mother in law Lola has the most beautiful tulips in her yard, she allowed me to cut a bouquet.  So pretty, and she gave me the pansy pot a few years ago. The magnolia got a little frost bit but still has plenty of new buds and I think the lilacs are just around the corner! My favorite. Thank you Lola!

garden 2015

Here is a little tour of my garden this spring.  I will have to say one perk of staying in one spot for nine years is having the pleasure of enjoying a mature landscape.  I don't know how many yards we have landscaped and then moved on.  I go visit my wisteria I planted in Raytown thirty years ago.  So glad it is not in my current yard.  Yikes, those things can take down a house.  I worked at a garden center for years and my experience really paid off. 

 pot of pansies

 redbud

 pansy

 California poppies

 bleeding heart

 Jane magnolia

 Jane magnolia

 flowering pasque

Jane magnolia

New gelli plates!

 We finally got some much needed rain here last night.  The grass really greened up and check out those bleeding hearts behind Riki.  I was trying to get a shot of him with the Easter basket but couldn't catch him.

Went to the post office and picked up my new gelli plates today!  So excited.  I really want a round one also but they didn't have them available at Amazon yet.  I ordered the Japanese Signo Gel pens, it will be interesting to see if they are better.   

Easter pansies

Planted my pansies today.  Had a little fun with the auto focus with the basket.

drawing on the right side of the brain

 Another lesson from my book.  I've been slacking off.  Don't know why.

 Maybe because it is so much more fun to doodle on a gelli print collage in my dylusion journal.  I love Bob Dylan.  Plus a bunch more random quotes I found on my desk today.

A tiny peak of spring.  So ready...

A beautiful reminder of spring!