the frog is back!!!!

i love frogs!
last spring a frog moved into one of our "water features" in the back yard. i was ecstatic. i love nature in my yard. i want nature to feel comfortable just doing it's nature thing in my yard. last year this frog sat out there singing for weeks - then one night - there were 2 frogs singing - i assume he finally got his lady b/c later, in early summer, there were tadpoles and then little frogs in our so called "water feature".
tonight is the first night that i have heard my frog. he's back!
yay spring!

oh, and Happy Birthday Andy!!! (he's 33 today! old geezer!)

Pre-Spring?!

we got this catalog in the mail just after christmas -- what the hell kind of season is "PreSpring"? at that point i decided it described the total blah of cold and rain and snow and general ick that plagued us after the holidays until spring actually began.

well, i think this week really begins "PreSpring" - and i present the following photo evidence from my garden as proof that spring really is just around the corner....


dafadills! poking their little green heads out of the dirt!


first blooms on the first rhodie!

iris! just one of my many gigantic fields of iris, streching after a long winter's nap.