Poem In Your Pocket

I found this interesting fact at Bobbi's Place, Almost There.

Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day! (Click words to find information.)

Today's forecast was rain. It did rain,
but not until this evening after 6:00 P.M.
That's okay with me!

First, the poem.
Then, the events of the sunny, warm morning!


Spring
by Karla Kuskin

I'm shouting
I'm singing
I'm swinging through trees
I'm winging sky-high
with the buzzing black bees.
I'm the sun
I'm the moon
I'm the dew on the rose.
I'm a rabbit
Whose habit
Is twitching his nose.
I'm lively
I'm lovely
I'm kicking my heels.
I'm crying, "Come dance"
to the freshwater eels.
I'm racing through meadows
Without any coat
I'm a gamboling lamb
I'm a light leaping goat
I'm a bud
I'm a bloom
I'm a dove on the wing.
I'm running on rooftops
And welcoming spring!

Yesterday, I mentioned I was going to move "the chunks." That's what I did, and I have the photos to prove it! ;-)

This is where I stopped. I ran out of time AND energy.
I'll try not look outdoors tomorrow.
I'm leaving for the weekend, and have many loose ends to tie.

This is today's photo of the fellow that hibernated under the sedum. ;-)

This is a close-up of the (lone) hyacinth.Here's the little pond I sank last Spring.
Obviously, it needs to be cleaned.
After removing the top layer of Fall leaves, look what I found!
Some green-ness to a couple of water hyacinths.
I really don't know that they'll live,
but I'll leave the whole kit-'n-kaboodle here
until Sunday afternoon.
And now a warning about the following video:
I didn't really take it for viewing, so close your eyes.
That way, you won't have to turn your monitor sideways to watch it.
AND, you'll be able to hear the bird sounds,
which is the reason I bothered
to make this video in the first place!
(Did you hear the red-bellied woodpecker?)
:-)

Still not shady around here!
Just a little silliness. ;-)

Garden Blogger's Bloom Day

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day
Brainchild of Carol of May Gardens
Make your posting on the 15th of each month.
Join us!

Hey, Bud! Where did you go?

See those nice big chunks back there?

Now, look at the following photograph. I'm going to remove the rocks at the front of this bed. I'll replace them with two layers of "chunk." It may help level the bed a bit. Then I plan to reposition the rocks in front to make a lowered layer.

(Can you visualize that?)

And then (I can hardly wait!) I'm going to plant
a shorter variety of Butterfly Bush!
Hurrah!
(I haven't purchased it, yet. I want to see if I can find it at a local nursery.
If not, I'll order it.)

It looks as though I need to begin some serious trimming on my forsythia!


Yo-Hoo! Bud....?

Oh!
There you are!

Hens and Chicks on the left and a Hyacinth (my lone).

Well, for heaven's sakes! Did that little guy hybernate
'neath the sedum?

Same sedum on the left, a trimmed miniature rose in front (I have the variety, but not right here), that lone hyacinth back there, some daffodils that somehow are crowded into the bed with a prickly rose! Yuck! Who thought THAT would be comfortable?

Scenic photo of some red stonecrop, a crocus, some leaves, another newly sprouted miniature rose (different variety) and an in-dangered dandelion leaf!
(This may be the year we'll try eating him!) ;-)

Last, but not least... it's astilbe! ;-) yea!
(Look closely!)

Hasn't this been a much-anticipated Spring?
I won't be able to play outdoors until Sunday afternoon.
The believe tomorrow's forecast is rain.
So... that's okay with me. ;-)

I hope you had as much fun outdoors today as I did!