Lots of Photos of Spring on my Corner

I almost titled this post, "Too much to do, and not enough time, but that's OK, it's spring!"  It was a glorious weekend!  I have a cold, so I had to pace myself, and I didn't get as much done as I'd have liked to, but I sure had fun, and took lots of photos.

The first few were taken by Larry on Saturday.  When I told KJ I wanted to go out to garden, he asked if we were going to pick tomatoes.  That 3 year old sure has a good memory!  He was happy to go to my veggie garden across the street, where there is lots of room to dig. We're quite the pair.  I have mismatched gloves on, and could only find one of his.

I also had him pull out a few annuals that hadn't gotten pulled yet.

When he went back to digging, he said he wanted to dig for worms.  I don't remember if we've done that, but we have probably found them while digging before.  I came over and helped him dig deeper, but we didn't see any.  That's OK.  We got to be outside.
 

Spring is really busting out in our area.  I made lots of fun discoveries today.  I want to include this photo taken from the front porch.  I had planted some pansies, but decided to wait to plant these last couple until the colder temps had subsided.  They have, so these came out of the garden window today.  Soon, there will be more little friends joining them, and Larry will be nervous until they get planted.  There is a row of hellebores against the house.  I toss leftover water and coffee on them, because they don't like to dry out.

I used to have the daffodils all across this bed, but the foliage takes so long to fade to the point of being able to be taken out, I tired of it, and took a bunch out.

 
The bergenia has a bud!

I am so pleased the 'Jack Frost' Brunnera I planted last spring under the tree in the front yard is coming up.  I am going to have to find another spot for it before the tree comes down.

The pansies that I planted survived the lows in the 20s, as usual.  I wasn't sure if they would, since I'd just planted them.  Squirrels keep digging them out, and I keep replanting them.  I put on some dried pepper flakes, but that didn't phase them.

The curb beds probably have too many leaves on them, but things are looking good so far.  I think that everything that should be up is.

 I'm thinking about getting some more fencing like this to put in the area that will be planted when the tree comes down.

The east side of the house:

I love my pasque flowers!

This may be my favorite discovery of today.  A friend gave me a start to some Virginia bluebells last spring, and I wasn't sure if they died, or went dormant without blooming.  There are a nice number of these buds.  I am so tickled!  Thanks, Janet!

This 'Yellow Lady' Hellebore is a beauty, even though the blooms don't have the reddish splotching they are supposed to have.

I don't remember the name of this hellebore.  I just realized that the hellebores that didn't get as much water last year are actually blooming before the others, and have more leaves.

The lettuce, spinach, and radishes are up in the veggie garden.  The peas beets and carrots are not up yet.  We got another section of chicken wire put up in there today.

I hope to harvest some rhubarb before the stalks get huge this year.

I spent more than the time writing this post than I'd allotted to myself, and now, I won't be able to visit other blogs tonight.  I hope April is being good to you so far!