Spring Flowers

The snow is gone now and the leaves are turning green. This picture is from a couple weeks ago, Smokey is patrolling the farm. It had been so warm and sunny lately, that I thought I should start some annuals in the pots on the porch. I usually wait until about mid-july to plant flowers and then they just look pathetic until the frost kills them a month and a half later. Darren was dissatisfied with the galvanized buckets and tubs we used as planters on the deck and insisted that they needed to be painted. So I spray painted half of them white and half of them butter yellow - very lovely. Then, I bought petunias, pansies, and marigolds and planted about 16 pots full of flowers.

Then it got cold again.

About half of the marigolds died while still sitting the greenhouse waiting to be planted. So every night, the pots are carried into the house or garage, and then they are carried back outside in the morning. But just think how beautiful they will be in another month when it is actually the appropriate time to set flowers out!

Rosie Darren had been bribing Rosie with tidbits of lichen, he tried an apple slice first but she wasn't interested. But the lichen is a different story, she has come to expect her daily lichen treat.

Baby Virginia is still to little to bribe with treats, but she did try tasting a little grain.