Showing posts with label Spring will come. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring will come. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Gettin' the itch

This weekend, my wonderful husband and I spent some Valentine's time together working on our greenhouse construction. We managed to get the north side's plywood walls mostly finished to protect its R-40 insulation:


(Lest you think we have no romantic bones in our bodies, 
we also managed to attend a Valentine's Dinner and Dance on Saturday night!)


It was wonderfully warm in our special sun room yesterday. 
I've spent a little time online trying to determine what colour to paint
those plywood walls. I guess it should be a full-spectrum white, somehow.
Time in the greenhouse gave me the itch to get my fingers into some dirt,
so in the afternoon, I decided to start my peppers, and a few heirloom tomatoes.


Yes, it's a bit early, but I always find that it takes forever for pepper seeds
to germinate, and hopefully we'll be able to use the above space soon...
but for now, they'll be waiting and warming on the window sill.


I received my order from Heritage Harvest Seeds last week, 
and couldn't wait to plant Ukrainian Pear, Martino Roma and Black Prince
heirloom tomatoes, as well as my usual Jalapeno and Blushing Beauty peppers.
It was a balmy 3 degrees celcius outside (37F) when I was planting. 
I have dirt under my nails, and I know spring is coming.
Feels good after all the cold winter weather we've had!

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Happy Spring????!

Ummm...


are you sure...


Spring has sprung...


?????


This would be more like it... but it's still two months away...

Even though our first so-called Spring snowstorm is here with a vengeance today,
I'm reminding myself that Spring Will Come
with my best spring poem, pictures, and piano piece.



Happy Spring!
(Eventually...)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Spring will come


For anyone and everyone who is as tired of winter as I am! Here's a spring/birthday poem I wrote for my friend Cathy, coupled with a song I once learned for her birthday. The music is Anne's Theme, composed by Hagood Hardy and played by me, and the pictures are from the beautiful Buchart Gardens near Victoria, BC, last April 16th.