It's beginning to look a lot like spring!

Whenever my mom tries to convince me that I would love living in Florida, I have to remind her of what Florida doesn't have: fall and spring.  I can't imagine living somewhere without these two beautiful seasons!

Watching the earth spring back into life through flowering trees, lilacs, azaleas and daffodils is pure joy.

And spring is such a wonderful time to be outdoors; no oppressive heat!

It was a beautiful Easter weekend, full of church, rest and roasted lamb.

 I love this little Williams-Sonoma bunny dish I found at Goodwill recently.

Our church puts up a photo backdrop for all the holidays, with volunteer photographers to take photos for whoever wants one before and after services.  It's been great for our Christmas cards every year.  I found this series of pics on my phone when I got home Sunday:

Not sure what the husband was up to in these pics, but I did laugh when I saw them.

And remember this little project I posted about in the fall?

I planted spring bulbs in these four pots and then stuck them in my shed.

I pulled them outside in the beginning of April.

They bloomed just in time for Easter!

But this was a project with mixed results.  If you recall, I planted four pots, not two.  Two of the pots had these red and yellow tulips, and two pots had different colored tulips and another type of bulb.

The two pots with these turned out beautifully, for $5 a pot.

So, the two pots with these tulips and chiondoxa have yet to bloom.  There is growth in both pots, but no flowers (yet) and I'm not sure if they're going to do anything more or not.

I think if they were, they would have done it by now, since they're packages say "early flowering."

(The packages of the tulips currently blooming say "mid-season flowering.")

Ah, gardening.  The seemingly random results you reap sometimes, where something doesn't perform for no obvious reason, while some small, spindly, barely-alive stick you put in the ground grows like crazy.  I keep hoping as I gain more experience, I'll figure some of these things out.  It seems every year I lose at least one good-sized established perennial for no reason I can fathom.

But when it works, it's just so satisfying.

I'll keep you posted if these pots end up with anything interesting after all.  We'll see.

So, as much as I love Florida, I'm afraid it's just not in the cards for me.  At least not now.  But I'll probably meet the minimum age for moving there soon.  Maybe I should start studying up on the tropical plants now...