A Little Spade Work

It is really remarkable what you can discover and reveal with a little exploratory spade work. In every case the primary culprit was liriope root masses.

Ah, Much Better

Weather in the 60s and all of a sudden you have a carpet of crocus and hot hellebore action!

The Snow Melt

The snow was beauty - all the more so because it did no damage. So instead of franticly cutting and cleaning as I did last year, we could simply wander around and enjoy. With all the precipitation we are having, we should have a floriferous spring! All the ferns are cut back and a few hellebores & crocus are blooming. Large, undulating flocks of songbirds are arcing through, surely a harbinger of spring! Hopefully an early one. Happy Lundi Gras.

Winter Wet

Not much gardening going on around here as the weather has remained cold and wet. I have begun, sporadically, the fern cutback and am about 150 gallons in.

Peony Emerging

Sort of looks like a moray eel.

One Determined Root

Leaf Skeleton

Mushroom & Forsythia

Mushrooms hanging out under a forsythia hedge.

Shelf 'shrooms

Shelf mushrooms on a huge downed tree up at Tate.

Glorious Day

The sun finally broke through and warmed us up on this holiday Monday. Here is a gardenia pod basking in the afternoon sun on this fantastic day.

Storm Debris

Still talking about last March's snow storm! Many of our crape myrtles were hit especially hard last year - looking like giant tan mushrooms after the snow and ice. I set aside many of the long limbs and they cluttered my tool shed for 10 months. Voila! Inspiration struck! Rinne needed a rail for her studio porch and here we are. One rail built, some clutter cleaned and debris used for a functional purpose.

Inglaciated

Not a lot of gardening going on 'round these parts lately. Just a deep long freeze for us. The above pictures are the ice sheet creeping over the rock down by the stream. Ground water not snow or sleet. A heat wave is coming though, highs in the 50s tomorrow! And this will return to a trickle.

Limb v. Truck(s)

Street trees have a hard life. Sandwiched betwixt curb and sidewalk. Under constant assault by drunken football fans, car doors, pet urine, and delivery trucks. But these crape myrtles seem to be able to with stand anything - and their limbs bear the scars.

The weatherman says that snow is on the way. Hopefully not a repeat of last year's storm!

beauty everyday

posting over here for the next few weeks.

i may pipe in over here some, but for now, lee will take the reins...

enjoy!

More Moore's Branch Treasure

Quite a lighter, no? Couldn't resuscitate. Too much time underwater.

Little Chilly Around These Parts

Ice on Tate Mountain Lake. A little unusual to me. Happily the temps were all the way up in the 30s in Athens!

Happy 2010

An early arrival. Cheers to a short winter & a happy, prosperous new year.

Flotsam & Jetsam

Treasure from Moore's branch

Knees

Spent part of the morning cleaning trash from Moore's branch-and from around these bald cypress knees.

Moore's Branch Beach

Moore's Branch gravel beach, down by the rock in our back yard. The branch flows down to the Oconee, which mates with the Ocmulgee to spawn the Altamaha which spills into the Atlantic or maybe flows on into the Sargasso Sea. So one distant day, this gravel, eroded to sand, will form the shifting beaches of the barrier islands down on the coast.

2010 Firewood

A little sliver of the pile of wood left from the great snow storm of March '09. Destined for our fireplace, soon.

Hydrangea