Gardening with Soule

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~To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.  ~Beverly Nichols
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My friend’s dog Riley has very good taste in flowers.
Or maybe the flowers just taste good.
 She was almost as happy to get those lilacs as I was.Â
~Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.  ~Roger Caras
Go on over to Camera Critters.  There are a lot of really great shots of photogenic [...]

I found some great old photos in the attic today.  I have a trunk that belonged to my husband’s grandfather.  He had an envelope filled with old photos and other papers. As you can see in the second photo, they were dated June 17, 1917 and written on them also was “in our backyard”.Â
Among the pictures [...]

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Working in my garden today, I was taken back by the lovely scent of lilacs.Â
 Their delicate fragance floats in the air in little wisps that catch your attention.
  They are such pretty flowers in shades of purple, periwinkle and white.Â
 I have planted many lilacs in the 3 years since we bought this house, just for that small [...]

We finally had a beautiful spring day. 

 There was plenty of wind but at least it was sunny and mild.Â
 It felt good to be out there working in my garden.
 At the end of the day I snapped a few pictures of what’s going on in this yard of mine.Â
There is quite a mix showing up this [...]

Just got a text message from a friend…”My mini greenhouse has sprouts..it’s so exciting.”Â
 Funny what a thrill we get from those little greenish yellow  plants poking out their heads to see the world.
 I think it’s innate in all of us to want to sow and reap from the Earth.Â
 I mean, seriously, why else would we [...]

This is my dog Thunder, up close, really close.
~A man may smile and bid you hail
Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a good dog wags his tail,
You know he’s on the level.~Author Unknown
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The awakening  of this pink peony blosssom being anticipated by one of it’s biggest fans (aside from me, that is).
 

A few weeks ago, I saw these ducks near the river.Â
They were comical to watch.  They seemed a bit curious about me, but cautious.Â
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They stayed long enough to thrill me with a few quick shots and figured out I wasn’t feeding them, so  they were off, back to float on the river, far away from me.
~”If [...]

To spite the sunny weather we’ve had along with warmer temps for the past week or so, we still don’t have a lot of flowers yet. But there are some. AND with each warm day we’ve had, the signs of spring are increasing. 

 I saw my first robin the other day and flocks of geese were flying over this [...]