Spring 2019 at Wet Weather Creek.

Nothing like tulips in the Spring

Mountain Laurel blooms

A newly planted Japanese maple, Sangu Kako.

The orchard field covered in bluebonnets on the verge of blooming.

Repairs needed for the kitchen garden fence.

Spring greens- kale, lettuce, chard, spinach and a few onions in the bed to the left.

A bloooming almond tree.  This is an experiment to see if I'll get almonds.  Not common here.

Zoey and her pals waiting for treats.

More bluebonnets by the parterre garden.  I grow roses inside the boxwood parterres.

RAIN

Rain, Glorious Rain.

We've had 3 weeks of intermittent gentle soak-in-the-ground rain and everything looks wonderful.  The bluebonnets are germinating and so are the weeds!  Maybe we'll have a great wildflower spring.

The Naked Ladies, so called because the bloom spikes erupt before their leaves.

Lots of blooms on the pear tree!  Nothing will come of this, so late in the season.

Snow on the Mountain native euphorbia.  I picked up seeds along the roadside in my neighborhood.  love them

Crepe Myrtle Tuscarosa

I bought this livestock feed/water container at Tractor Supply to use as a pond and it is at least 12 inches deep and all filled with the recent rains.

Close up of the euphorbia

Butterfly vine, the dried seed pods look like butterflies.

Heavily blooming prostrate rosemary.

Native ground cover horse herb.  I love it.

Crepe mrytle.  I think this is 'Dynamite'.

Judy Wisdom memorial rose.  A joke name for a passalong rose from my friend Judy Wisdom.

Happy Easter

Little apples

Little pears

Japanese Maple

Clearing pathways

Hesperloe bloom spikes

Blackberry blooms

EEEEWW BUGS!

Bye

Spring is HERE

Fig tree leaves sprouting

Mountain Laurel blooms.  They smell like grape soda.

Sandankwa viburnum

Julia Child rose

My first iris bloom this year

I am removing a mesquite tree and the primrose jasmine that swallowed it.  The jasmine is a real monster, rooting whenever a branch touches the ground.

Little rainbow rose

Crepuscule rose buds

Apple blossoms

SNOW in Central Texas

The house as seen from the back yard.

Looking toward the orchard.

The shed and kitchen garden seen from the second floor.

What a marvelous surprise last week.  So beautiful.  These photos were taken at dawn.