Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom
Location
San Antonio, Texas,
Birthday
February 21
Bio
Retired military, novelist and mother, sucker for animals and homebody

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011 8:11AM

Spring to Look Forward To - Photo Essay

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Because it is dreary February, just about everything in the garden is dormant or dead - and because I am waiting for spring ... some pictures to remind us of what spring looks like... wildflower meadow
 
Every meadow can be a natural shoji screen...
 
In the pink - smaller

You're in the pink...

The red white and bluebonnets - smaller

Hurrah for the red, white and blue-bonnets...

Tricolor Crapes-smaller

 The crepe myrtles come in tricolor, too.

BackSteps

The private and personal patch of paradise.

olive trees and wildflower vista

Olive nursery, oak trees and distant wildflowers.

redbud tree

Redbud in bloom, in old mill ruins.

victorian greenhouse

White greenhouse with arrangment of purple verbena

white lilac

Zen arrangement of white lilac

  primroses

A blanket of pink primroses ...

  corn poppy

The last word - a red field poppy.

OK, I feel much better now.

 

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I'm ready to go back to the Appalachian Mtns and plant my garden!
I can't wait for this to become a reality. -R-
We're halfway there - thanks for the reminder.
Oh, now I'm homesick...Up here in Northern Illinois, we're about 8-10 weeks from scenes like those. It's just ugly, dirty snow around here right now.
Thanks for makıng my day have good memorıes.
Funny. I was just looking at photos of flowers for the same reason.
Lovely on a snow day. R
Oh, yeah - only a month here in Texas, and mebbe another two-three months elsewhere? We're strong, we can do it! Lemme hear you shout - OK, we're strong, we can last! (I can't hear you! Shout again - WE'RE STRONG - WE CAN LAST!!!)
That's right - now, put on your PT gear, and let's go do a nice relaxing three-mile run...