Easter Flowers

We've had an very early spring and in the last week temperatures have ranged wildly from the high 80s to the low 40s. We took a walk in a sweet residential neighborhood right behind the Battery this afternoon and I enjoyed looking at yards, behind gates, and generally at plants. One of the things I've always liked about Charleston is you don't have to have your entire house and yard in tip top shape. You can pull it off with one small bed running down the side of your house, or around one tree. It sort of takes the pressure off. Here are some of the pretty spots we saw. (Google's Picasa has given you all kinds of new photo editing options, so I've played with Easter egg colors.)

Behinds one of those tantalizing gates

This is the Catholic Diocese's grounds -- right off of Broad Street.

Another shot of that pretty lawn

You can't go wrong with pansies

Here is a very formal side yard set up for outdoor dining. Sweet.

They decorated the tree they had. . .

A pretty little bed between the front entrance and the street.

Amaryllis grow in the yard down here.

Knock-out roses and the remains of a white azalea.

Who is this man? (I should talk - I have a plant stand with a lady's face . . .)

Honeysuckle

 

 

It's been a nice day here. Happy Easter, everyone!

Happy Easter

Debbie sent me this card last Easter. It still cracks me up.

Fried Green Tomatoes has been pretty quiet lately. I've been trying to keep the Fiber Guild's blog somewhat current and interesting -- it's been hard to find time to even do that.

We went to Black Mountain a couple of weeks ago to inter Debbie's ashes at the columbarium at Christmont. Sad, but also good to do that in that way sad things can be good.

A funny thing from that weekend was that we asked our neighbors Dennis and Becky to feed Eloise while we were gone. Of course, Eloise wouldn't come in the house when we were ready to leave, so Duncan called Dennis and told him she was outside, but would probably be waiting on the step when they went to feed her. After we had been home for a few days, Dennis admitted to Duncan that he came over and there was a cat on the steps, but he realized he didn't know what Eloise looked like! This first cat ran off along the creek bank and then Eloise appeared and somehow acted enough like she owned the place for Dennis to let her in. We'll have to start leaving a picture on the refrigerator. This is a nice one.

Mom came back to Charleston with us after the weekend in the mountains. We didn't do much to show her the town, but she spruced up my flower pots and ferns, cooked some wonderful meals, and had a taste of early spring before leaving yesterday in time to see early spring in Cary.

I'm hoping we'll get to Person County in late April and maybe get to see early spring there as well. There is a method to our madness.

Happy Easter!

We don't have kids or grandkids to do Easter baskets for -- so we had to do one for the kids in us. We had our supper group for dinner here last night and I noticed every single grown-up person dug into the bowl of jelly beans.

Here's our one pretty azalea bush. The temps went down to near freezing again this week and I didn't cover it up. I was afraid I would wake up to a muddy brown azalea bush, but I don't think we get the coldest temperatures here on the marsh.