71:365 Toasting Spring

I'm toasting spring tonight... 60's & 70's all this next week ~ THAT'S SO AWESOME!!!

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69:365 Sky Watching

While at a customer's house at Lake Bloomington I took some time to walk through the forest. I love following the "deer trails" and seeing where they might lead. And of course I had lots of opportunities to watch my avian friends: chickadees, titmice, woodpeckers, sparrows, hawks, robins, cardinals... I'm so anxious for warblers and such to return!!!

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66:365 It's A Good Day

What a beautiful spring day in Central Illinois!!! Installed pansy containers for four clients today... So nice to see color at the front of their houses/business.

62:365 Gardening To-Do

I started making my to-do lists today as I visit my gardening clients... So happy to be back outside working again!



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Reach For The Sky

SPRING ~ SPRING ~ SPRING

Iris With Some Texture

This was actually a two year old image I ran into tonight while working at Harvest Bookstore at Eastview... But had some quick fun with it and turned it into something more interesting than it was originally. 

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

I get so excited about seeing green this time of year... and flowers... and warmer weather... and... BIRDS (hence the "nickname" that I use for Twitter, email, my blog and other various places: strouthion (στρουθίον - stroo-thee'-on), which is greek meaning "a little bird, esp. of the sparrow sort").

Migration is in full force and I love to see our colorful winged friends arriving daily in central Illinois from locations far far away to the south. Whether they're staying local until fall or the many that are just stopping on their way to Canada for the summer... It's so awesome to see them starting to arrive. And though I haven't had the chance to see any warblers in my backyard yet, I did have a sweet ruby-crowned kinglet stop by and cheer up my day this past Wednesday... and he even waited patiently for me to run back inside and grab my camera...

New Life

It was so awesome to see all of the growth this weekend in plants... Irises and peoneas are just jumping out of the ground right now!

How can anyone not like spring and the new life it brings to us. :-)


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Buzzing Into Spring

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Snapdragon Day

It's snapdragon day all day in the greenhouse ... Transplanting snapdragon seedlings from seed trays to 48's.

Summer is coming...

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Getting Busy...

It's that time again... spring gardening season has begun and I'm spending time working at BCC (Bloomington Country Club) and client's houses. At BCC I'm doing a lot of greenhouse work... seeding, planting, transplanting, separating, transplanting seedlings, throwing out plants I killed over winter :-) At client's houses I'm mostly cleaning beds, cutting back perennials I never got to in the fall, weeding, planning containers and annual beds, separating/transplanting perennials, ordering annuals/tropicals from suppliers... It's all fun :-)

But, when I can... I'm still finding time to snap a few images here and there (but never enough). When I returned home from work today I had to capture the crocuses that are blooming by our driveway... They always make me smile when they start their performance.

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I hope everyone's spring is starting off as nice as ours... Busy, but nice. I'll try to keep up with the blogging as much as I can, but can't guarantee as frequent of postings. I'm still reading/studying the book of Colossians daily and will post thoughts as I can, even if the thoughts are simple and short. The book of Colossians is challenging and strengthening me in many ways during 2011 and getting me on a better path in life. 

Colossians 3:2 continues as my 2011 mission statement... "Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth." I read it and say it daily (usually multiple times daily). I thank God for directing me this book on January 1st... It came along at just the right time.

Spring Has Sprung

First signs of spring... Our daffodils are peaking through the ground... Now that's something to be excited about!!!


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