New Arrivals

New bulbs are coming up and opening on a daily basis. This I think is Chionodoxa gigantea alba.



Here is the Scilla siberica. It is a tiny thing.



I'm already losing track of the daffodils. I do make an effort to show the whole range of flower types blooming in the ridge top garden. A Split-Cup Narcissus I presume.



A Trumpet Daffodil.



A Double Narcissus. Sometimes it is hard to determine the difference between the split-cups and the doubles.



Hmmm? Is there a Ruffle-Cup class of narcissus?



Patches of Anemones are becoming more abundant. The flowers appear in loose clusters so they do not make a big show per se, but are more like bright spots in the ground litter.



The Spots enjoy their late afternoon garden tours. We have been walking down to their soon to be new home regularly to get them acclimated to another abode. Crawford and Collar were kind enough to press in the seeds I planted in the roadside vegetable garden yesterday. Two kind lettuce, spinach, radish and snap peas have been sown. You can see how I rake the wood chips away to create a sunken row. This will be better for catching rainwater.



I was feeling a bit depressed about my lack of economic circumstances the other day and thought the zen of wall building would be a good relief. I have not worked on the wall in quite a long time. I cleaned out the little bit of winter freeze thaw erosion and the accumulated leaf litter and got to stacking stones.

These are the beginnings of two small grottos that are being built into the wall. They will be good for candles or bleached critter bones, snake skins or other such bric-a-brac.



The left end of the wall at the curve got some attention to and rose about another foot.



A grotto in the making.



The framing of the porch roofs is being primed. The back stoop has both coats and is ready to be painted the chosen color, Molera Vaquero Red. It's not easy painting all the sides of this framing that will be exposed under the metal roof.



Across the sunny utility valley from the cabin, daffodils are coming up in a garden to be. They are in the foreground and the faint green spots in the top far right and top center left behind the two leaning apple trees are daffodils too.



Down in the forest the Anemone acutiloba or A. americana, it is hard to tell the difference, has begun to bloom in great drifts of white poking up through the leaf litter.



With the garden tour finished the Spots and I head back home



And back to a hillside of blooming daffodils



At the end of another sunny spring day.