After a depressingly rainy spring, the sun and warmer weather has finally arrived.  My garden could not be happer.  Yellow, blue, purple and pink flower faces are popping up everywhere!

 

I became an avid gardener last year.  During the summer and fall, my yard went from a desolate square of red cedar chips with a single rosebush and a few hostas to a luxurious carpet of green surrounded by rose bushes, mums, daisies, flowering bushes, and many, many other vibrant beauties. 

It thrills me to get out on a crisp sunny day, plant and get my hands dirty, and then sit back and enjoy the beauty of a garden that I've cared for.  Plants are amazing.  It helps to have great soil.  My garden will grow anything!  I've never really had a "green thumb".  It's the soil, not me.  Well, maybe it is a little me, but there is definitely a heap of help coming from the rich, black dirt teeming with earthworms. 

 

I brought home several new plants yesterday evening - a large trumpet vine, morning glories, butterfly bushes, and green beans!  - I thought I'd add another vegetable to my small tomatoe and herb garden.

 

I'm thrilled that it is sunny and look forward to the greenery soaking up those rays and blooming into evermore color during the summer.

 

Hoorah!  Summer has arrived!