Thursday, August 21, 2008

Firsts

I was just out watering the poor deserted flowerbeds when I saw the first butterfly of the season.

The dead grass has taken on a distinct green shimmer and it will need its first trim soon.

The first harvest from my garden was a handful of cherry-red radishes i picked yesterday, crisp and white and deliciously sharp-hot on the inside.

Spring is here, still sleepy, but shaking the old autumn leaves from her hair and stretching her fingers deep into the ground.

1 comment:

Dave R said...

Don't you just love how everything starts growing again this time of the year?
Our grass did pretty well in the winter and didn't suffer too much so it still had a green tinge to it, but now with the watering, you can see the new shoots coming through, the regular flowers are shooting up and the herbs are doing quite nicely!

We started doing a lot more work on the garden in the last few weeks - cleaning up, some planting, more watering, this weekend we're breaking out some concrete and installing a bunch of flower pots we just bought, should look nice!