May Discoveries...

Here are some pictures of things that I've been discovering over the last week or so...

My mom and my brother's hands - October 1986.

Read the story on my other blog for my mom...

Above, a purple blooming Spiderwort - love getting close enough to see the details...

I love the way the pedals are folded over like little pieces of paper...

And when unfolded... (above)

Weird fun little mushrooms growing in the shady parts of the garden...

Starting to get some blooms in the garden...

The May Apple Bloom - side view...

The American Goldfinches have shed their dull overwintering coat for this wonderful yellow...

Don't worry little birds, lots of Zinnia & Cone Flower Seeds will be here soon enough too...

These were bright green about a month or so ago - now they are looking a bit like little seed beads in my favorite color palette (and size 11's).

Friend plug for Leslie of Twisted Sistah Beads & Fibers...

She always has the best seed beads (she feeds my addiction)...

Chloe Smelling a Flower... and some dogwood trees

This last weekend we took some time to go to Woodside Farm Creamery for a bit of a treat.

While there, Chloe was picking dandelions and buttercups.

Of course, she had to smell each one (no wonder why her allergies started kicking in on Sunday)...

Here is a quick picture of something that I pass every day, but won't be around forever since these two trees will be growing into each other, creating a larger looking tree with two trunks...

The two dogwood trees stand to the left and to the right of the "wishing well".

Should've cropped the picture better, but I've got to get more work done...

But I wanted to post something here on the garden blog...

Can I just say - holy cow... I think I'm in trouble with over seeding my garden.

Any friends in the area wanting some native plants (mostly perennials) get in touch with me to come dig some up for your garden... it's going to be a bit crowded in there if not...

Thanks for stopping by!

What 9 days of rain brings to my garden in May

I think it's been raining for like 9 days here in Delaware...

I've been so busy running around, I've hardly noticed...

I had to go into "work mode" in order to get a lot of work done for Marsha Neal Studio.

And my light at the end of the tunnel is having time to catch up and relax a bit over this Mother's Day weekend...

Oh, how the garden is coming to life!

Here are some pics from the garden in the last few days...

These ferns are quite interesting - like a gathering of statues looking down onto something in the center of their group...

Some native grasses starting to emerge....

Like bright green spears coming out of the ground...

The dogwood trees are in bloom, but some of the petals are quite droopy with all the rain...

Smaller blooming Iris (Caesar's) that don't get too many blooms, but they are beautiful when they do emerge...

Chloe found this moth yesterday when we were getting ready to head to school.

I put a few small bells into the garden and she loves ringing them.

Thought it was a small leaf at first that got stuck to the bell hanger...

It's abdomen is pointing towards the camera.

This is a picture of an old moldy tree near my chiropractor's office.

Talk about humidity - we've got it year round here!!!

And of course, Chloe - in her favorite slippers that I got for her.

They are handmade by Piddies (through Etsy)

And I've so got to get me a pair too!!! They are super soft!

Happy Mother's Day Weekend to everyone!!!

My Garden in Early May

Chloe is so much fun to watch as she learns about nature.

Here I think, one day she'll be saying...

Loves me...

Loves me not...

These weeds are in full bloom, and I have made a decision that this year I will do my best to pull them from the woods behind my house so they do not suffocate the May Apples, Jack in the Pulpit, and other native April/May plants...

Here are some Violets that are all over the place - I don't pull these!

I just started to see snail shells this year in the garden.

Maybe I just hadn't looked for them before...

Little white and pink blooming flowers in the woods

(will have to figure out what their name is... Anyone?)

Some of my small iris ground cover...

An old tree stump in the woods...

The old wood pile... love the patterns that the wood makes - new texture maybe?

Mushrooms from the forrest floor...

Lady Ferns emerging getting ready to unfold their delicate fronds...

they are greeting the morning sun...

These are some of my wood or autumn ferns which are a bit larger ferns...

Looking up through the dogwood tree in bloom, in the morning...

Facing Northwest - Hi Joan and Lana!!!

A bleeding heart plant...

And one of my favorite surprises to find in our woods...

The Jack in the Pulpit...

Last year I found some Jack seeds and researched how to propagate them.

Basically, remove the outer red juicy covering, and plant...

So if that worked, I should see quite a few showing up in the garden and not just in the woods.

What a wonderful place to explore...

Thanks for visiting!!!