A little Madness in the Spring
is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson
Well, today was a day to celebrate glorious spring - kings and peasants alike! Splendidly sunny and warm it was!
This cheerful Leopard's Bane - Lion's Mane would be a cooler name for this bright clump of yellow flowers in its luxurious green foliage - brightens the drab wall behind it with its vibrant hues!
Bleeding Heart
I love watching this perennial develop as it grows quickly once the warm weather sets in producing those lovely arching branches of bleeding hearts. The first picture is of a grouping that just sprang up without any help from me...just happened to appear along the bleak wall last year and this spring has come up quite prolifically. the energy of a seed is amazing and fascinating to contemplate. Was it the wind...the rain...the robin that dropped the tiny seed on the receptive soil last year sometime? I don't know if this plant is a wild kind of Bleeding Heart. It could be the Fernleaf Bleeding Heart - but not sure.
Just after lunch Megan and I checked on the sunflower seeds which we'd planted on Wednesday. But I assured her they would need more than two days to begin sprouting! We'll keep looking.
Then to "put the icing on the cake" our friends, Lorna and Lyle, popped over for coffee in the afternoon! What a great way to begin the month of May!
2 comments:
good to see all of you enjoying a coffee time together on that beautiful day.
What a lovely birthday salute to Evelyn. I also remember Evie and her older sister Eleanore.
Deanna and Gloria as well are in my memory bank of days long gone. Glad these friends of yours are still in your life. What a blessing indeed!
Keep friendships going.
Herta
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