After having work down on our front and back landscaping here for the last two months- those rocks look pretty cool! What a great MD idea. I asked DH if we could NOT go out to do something and just stay home instead and enjoy our gardens at home instead. We have lots of roses and other plants too in pots we can plant up that weekend. He made me a MD tea party (cooked all the food and set it up himself) one year and we'll do that again as we all enjoyed it so much. we're a tea party family! Here are some pics of our recent landscaping projects on my Picture Trail. The gazebo in our front yard was our Valentine's Day Wedding anniversary gift to each other. I think the new front yard and back patio are our Mother's Day and Father's Day gifts -for a few years! careytearose Here is a link that might be useful: check out the Landscaping Projects 2007 album

-Renee, yep! An heirloom columbine and Geranium macrorrhizum ;-) -Mary Lu, that is indeed rhubarb. I have already made a few crisps from it this spring. Yum! -Susan, correct! That is 'Fireball' Geum, one of the bigger cultivars. It is only one plant- looks like more since the stems on this fellow have a habit of leaning, lol. -serenae, would love to see pics of the arbor you built sometime!! -mandolls and Lynne, thank you! I was thinking the other day how much more personality this one has than the one at the store. Plus it seems to 'fit' better with the look of the garden. CMK

Yes, it was great to finally see the sun, at least some of the time this weekend. What's up with all those maple seedlings this year? I'm a newbie, and I don't remember those last year, at least in this year's quantity. I had a productive weekend, also. I transplanted pieces of hosta that were missed when I transplanted them last year. I've transplanted them every year, so I hope that this is their final location. I also went into the neighbor's woods and helped myself to some daffodils and transplanted them, along with pieces left over from two years ago when I transplanted all the daffodils from the back yard to the front. They pouted on me last year and didn't bloom, but this year they were beautiful! Too bad the deer at some of them before I could get a picture. I also transplanted a crocus that popped up under the spruce tree out back and put it in the front. I re-potted my asparagus fern and Wandering Jew, as well as my two geraniums which I overwinter. I started dumping some dirt on the recessed area in the front where the sewer line was dug up last year. I'll have to plant some grass there. I weedwacked most of the back yard, which of course got away from me again, and got too high to mow (I have a reel mower because there's no way to get a regular lawn mower from my shed to the front yard due to the change in elevation). I took my mother out to get annuals Saturday and planted mine yesterday. And, of course, I weeded. I started digging a hole for the hydrangea I bought, but I haven't decided where to plant the rose campion I bought.

I haven't really seen any anyplace. I have a few of the disposable, have given a couple away and find times when they may be a better choice than the cloth - many of which seem to have wider elastic. DH got his first haircut in three months (he's typically going every 5 weeks) this morning. He wore a disposable mask. His favorite masks to date have adjustable slides behind the ears and I knew those would be in his new stylists way. He went to our neighbor at her salon for the first time, his usual hasn't reopened yet or returned his messages. He loved the haircut. Friend who manages a large truck (commercial) sales and parts business got some masks in last month. My BIL called and asked if I'd picked any up from there, he wanted some for 'handouts' at their summer home. When the invoice came indicating what they were to be priced, I changed my mind and didn't buy them. $100 for box of 50 masks. Didn't want them that badly. They had the company name on them, and I was OK with the advertising but not paying that much to show a name and logo ;0) I've got a good supply of hand sanitizer. Yes, we do wash when a sink and soap are available. But I have the sanitizer in both vehicles, the garage, the kitchen, guest bath. And enough to share if anyone wants to refill a container. If I go out and am at the bank, post office, grocery store, I'm using the hand sanitizer when exiting the bank, post office and grocery store.