but inside I have an African Violet that more than makes up for that.

I hope you are having a wonderful day! 

Early to bed, early to rise,
Work like hell: fertilize.
-   Emily Whaley 

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 I have shown them before but I can’t help displaying them once again for those that might have missed them.

 My  sons  call them “terrifying”.    

 They may not like them now, but one day when they think back on me, I am sure that these little guys will bring some fun memories.

 I should explain that my sons are grown.  One is 18 and the other is 29. 

Just to get back for all their inside jokes and cross room looks, I may have to hand them down to future grandchildren just to be sure they linger in my son’s lives for many, many years.  

I do want the last laugh.

 Or maybe they will eventually acquire a bit of my “good taste” and like them. 

 Who knows?    Anything can happen… Right?

~Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.  ~Mrs. C.W. Earle

 Visit Suzanne at Coloradolady for Vintage Thingies Thursdays

Small sized pruners for those of you with smaller hands.  

We are happy to offer  a pair with an ergonomic rotating action  handle. 

Felco pruners fit  your hand comfortably so you don’t tire while using them. 

They have an ergonomic design and cushioning to protect your hands.

Wire cutting notch and a groove for sap if you are cutting sticky branches. 

 If you are tired of replacing your pruners season after season and tired of dull pruners that break, these are for you. 

 Once you have a pair you will never settle for any other kind. 

Made to last a lifetime.  

They make a great gift for any gardener or homeowner.  

Well done is better than well said.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Everyone is ready for springtime and that was very apparent at the Philadelphia Flower Show.  So instead of more snow pictures I will share a few more of the sights I saw there last Friday. This is what I wish my outdoor Wednesday looked like.

But it still looks the same outdoors here, even though our weather is improving. 

Actually I do have a few brave sprouts trying to emerge to spite the snow all around them, but looking at these pretty flowers is much more pleasing to my eyes in the middle of March.

The warmer temperatures we have been having are melting the white stuff but more importantly they are lifting the winter doldrums. 

 It won’t be long and there will be scenes like these out in our very own backyards.

I can’t wait!

 ~ No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell

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It was so nice to see them all blooming and fragrant.

  This clematis was simple and pretty.

This is what it looks like backed up a bit.

The colors of hydrangeas never fail to please.

~He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. ~Mary Howitt

 *Click here or be sure to check out the side bar to find out about Garden Shoes Onlines’s Give Away.  Just upload a picture of spring coming and you get a $10 Gift Certificate and a chance to win the $200 drawing on the first day of spring. You don’t need to be a gardener to find something you like. Garden Shoes Online has so much to choose from and we will be adding new products for Spring over the next few weeks.

   For Camera Critters I thought I would show critters from the show.  The theme was “Around the World.”  This was part of India’s display which also makes it fit the subject “Foriegn” for Photohunter.  Amazing what creativity people have.  All of the exhibitions were beautiful scenery to gaze at.  Just gorgeous. 

 ~Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

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Also, some PINK flowers,

one of which is a morning glory just about ready to bloom.

 Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust

*Click here or be sure to check out the side bar to find out about Garden Shoes Onlines’s Give Away.  Just upload a picture of spring coming and you get a $10 Gift Certificate and a chance to win the $200 drawing on the first day of spring. You don’t need to be a gardener to find something you like. Garden Shoes Online has so much to choose from and we will be adding new products for Spring over the next few weeks.

  Could there be anything that exudes springtime more than bright yellow daffodils? 

 Even on a gloomy day it feels like sunshine when they are around.  

These were a surprise from my sweetie yesterday.

  He knows I NEED some spring time. 

So these are my blooms this friday! 

I am off to the Philadelphia Flower show tomorrow~ bright and early!

~A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ~William Wordsworth

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Here is how it works:

• Take a picture of a sign of spring, then go on over to our  SIGNS OF SPRING CONTEST .
• No photographic prowess is necessary to win. The winner will be chosen randomly from all valid entries on March 21, 2010

Want some extra chances to win?  Here they are!

•  Receive One Bonus Entry if you place our button on your blog-then come back here and leave me a comment and let me know so that  I can be sure to give you an extra entry.
• Receive One bonus entry if you  post about the contest on your blog-just be sure to leave me a comment letting me know with a link back to it so I can give you your extra entry. 

You don’t have to be a blogger to enter, anyone can leave a photo to receive their $10 gift certificate and be entered  for the $200 gift certificate. So tell your friends, bloggers or not. 

Remember to visit the contest site by clicking on my sidebar contest button.  Check back often when winter is dragging on, see the signs of spring happening for others.~ That should give us a little light at the end of the winter tunnel and cheer us all up. 

How would you spend $200 dollars at Garden Shoes Online?  There is plenty to choose from and we will be adding a bunch of new products over the next couple of weeks. So enter your picture ~I want to see spring springing somewhere!

Good Luck!

I was absolutely thrilled.  It’s a beautiful hand wrought tool that has withstood the test of time.  

It looks like the Devil’s trident or pitchfork, and it kind of reminds me of Neptune’s Trident. 

 Too bad it doesn’t weild his powers. 

 Neptune, not the devil.

I have added in Humpty Dumpty to show Suzanne my cookie jar also known as Mr. Sperm by my sons.   

 ~Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.  ~Lindley Karstens

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*Click here or be sure to check out the side bar to find out about Garden Shoes Online’s Give Away.  Just upload a picture of spring coming and you get a $10 Gift Certificate and a chance to win the $200 drawing on the first day of spring. You don’t need to be a gardener to find something you like. Garden Shoes Online has so much to choose from and we will be adding new products for Spring over the next few weeks.