Spring Time Temperatures!!!!!

Bella riding her bike

new birdhouse put out

big new birdhouse put out

Mom's new whirly gig

blowing in the breeze

After I put the birdhouses up Bella came to inspect and liked that there were in her "Royal Garden" and that she could call us with her owl bell and in case I didn't know it that Memaw and I were her Royal Subjects.  lol

Bargains

More Bargains for the Garden

beautiful coneflowers for $1 each

on clearance at a local nursery

2 cute thatched nesting pockets

on sale at Duncraft

2 metal crosses

on clearance at Hobby Lobby

and the best for last

2 concrete pedestals at a yard sale

Friday evening & YES they are as

heavy as the look

For the Birds

Birdhouses

are they coming or going

shade garden by patio

I got 6 of these bluebird houses

at Lowe's on clearance

pre-drilled holes are a blessing

for putting them up

Hobby Lobby clearance $2.50 each

and they still have 2 on the shelves

what were people thinking to leave them

nesting boxes, have 2

one on each end of the garden

in my corner garden

the daylilies have had it

at the back of the garden

old house that fell down

and the butterfly house

they have never used!

Snow, Snow & More Snow

Snow, Snow Go Away

Come Again Another Year????

Father Winter decided to pay Northern Middle Tennessee another visit yesterday afternoon. I left work at 1:20 because Jennifer called and said our road was covered and slushy already. It was still raining at work.

The roads were fine until I reached the red light in Greenbrier and then the winter storm appeared. It was amazing that the road before the light was fine and after the light was not. Thank goodness we only live about 5 miles or so from the light and no one seemed to mind poking along at 20 miles an hour.

This is our road in front of the driveway leaving for work this morning. Nice and frozen. I walked out before leaving to see if the black part was really the road and it was - with a nice coating of ice of course.

another 3 inches to clean off the trucks

sticking to the trees again

so neat to watch

shade garden close to the house

wrought iron collects snow very well

good thing no birds in this house

accumulating on more trees

drifts really well with the wind we had

It would be so nice if Father Winter would pack up his bags and leave town. Unfortunately he is scheduled for another visit tomorrow afternoon. Mother Nature needs to kick him out of town since he apparently has no plans to leave on his own. Spring can't get here fast enough.

Real Snow This Time

Please join me in a tour of our winter garden as I shuffle around in Mom's new rubber boots. She found these on clearance at Ross' and they are wonderful. I've got to get me a pair.

Enter Our Winter Wonderland

our garden gate

the magnolia tree looked fabulous

bird cage by back patio

chubby robin waiting for Wild Cat to finish

so he could eat

chubby's friends weren't so confident

they chose to wait higher up

neighbor's barn at edge of our flower garden

butterfly house

basket hanging at back edge of garden

swing with a cold seat

bench with an even colder seat

little pond in garden

birdhouse in the reading corner of the garden

back patio swing

Last Wednesday we got snow, 3 inches of this gorgeous stuff and the roads were horrible. I took a vacation day, stayed home and played. By Wednesday afternoon the main roads were clear and the back roads were starting to slush up. By Thursday afternoon everything was back to normal. It seems like we have had more snow this year than ever before. They said this is our normal only we haven't had normal for the last several years. Here's hoping normal doesn't visit us again any time soon.

Our own state groundhog, Chattanooga Chuck, is predicting no early spring and lots more winter. What a major dud!

Looking For Sunshine

Winter Color

Where O Where is Spring

After a gorgeous weekend in the 50s Monday rolls around and the rains come again. More rain on Tuesday and through the night with snow showers for Wednesday morning and a light dusting on the ground but not the roads thank goodness.

our magnolia sprout growing by leaps and bounds

red birdfeeder in the garden

more green in the corner garden

red berries the birds love

empty birdfeeder

the wild turkeys tried to get on

so funny - they are too big and it is too little

red wagon by holly tree

sure makes the red berries show up

green moss - so pretty

bee and sunflower birdhouse

on side of old shed

old shed still standing the test of time

snow showers lingering Wednesday morning

dusting of snow

We did manage a little sunshine Wednesday afternoon before the clouds rolled back in and it is supposed to start snowing sometime this afternoon/early evening and depending on what station you watch we could get a dusting to 3 inches of the white stuff. Where is spring? It needs to hurry up!