June 9th, 2022 May went by without any acknowledgement from Daybyday, which is really too bad because it was such a lovely month...... The grass grew, the peonies started to bud and all the little red stubs in the side garden pushed their way up and opened into lovely new plants, all green and full of spring!!! I don't get out into the garden as much as I have in previous years, - too many watchful children around who think ladies in their nineties shouldn't be allowed to dig around in gardens and bend over into weed platches!!! Well, yes, - I understand all that, and I appreciate all the willing hands that take over these tasks, but oh, how I do miss those lovely early mornings when I was able to go out and see what the night had pushed through that wonderful dark rich soil!! But I am grateful for those years - my dear one and I were so lucky to have had a garden for almost all of the seventy seven years we were married, and both of us enthusiasts for green shoots..... Still, the rhubarb is growing tremendous over by the fence at the edge of the garden, and I don't dare make my waythrough all the greenery, even with a cane, and especially if there is no one else around....sigh - I guess it is inevitable to come to that for anyone who is lucky enough to explerience old age..... Anyway, I am so grateful for perennials that grow tall and shaggy and produce wonderful flowers no matter how neglectful one might be! At the moment the yellow Iris are putting on a wonderful show at the edge of the front fence, right in centre stage where I can see them at breakfast, or any other time of the day that I spend at the dining room table. And a few crocus lend colour to the flower bed.....in the hills the yellow bell rises to announce that spring is here.....

Out back the raspberries are starting to form little clusters and before long a handful will be delicious with a bowl of ice cream! In the meantime it makes my dreams, and I can gloat over the progress the berries make as they get rounder and fuller and pinker..... It is such as pleasure to sit out back where the meadow goes greener and taller and occasionally the deer come out of the grove of bushes that grow along the creek and I have such a good view of these lovely creatures..... This is an old picture, and I haven't seen this many together yet this year, but one or two are so great to watch........

I am looking forward to a drive in the hills where I might catch sight of spring flowers and hear a meadow lark sing!! When it rains, or the weather doesn't invite one to go outside, I spend time at the loom with the idea of creating a few thirsty kitchen towels out of the 8/2 cotton I have stashed away, - they will plrobably be rainbow hued as I have a great array of cones just about about one half or one quarter full. They make for a creative project......