Family Mellmann

After a lovely morning with a warm summery breeze, the rain finally arrived.  The breeze died down and the rain fell hard, but a blue sky could still be seen, and the sun was still shining through.  Someone around here was seeing rainbows, it just wasn't us.  However, we still had a beautiful view. This is the view from my garage where I watched the rain pour down while I remained mostly dry (and swatting at the army of mosquitoes taking refuge from the rain in the same garage that I was).     And this is my happy garden all green and looking fresh from the rain.  This is the last picture I took before fleeing indoors to escape the 280% humidity and gargantuan mosquitoes who seem to know better than fly around my back yard where the Mosquito Magnet will suck them up!  

Spring is here, and the garden is looking wonderful with bright colors, growing plants, trees budding, and birds checking out our bird feeders. After so many years of no gardens (except for a few flower pots, we have had no gardens since we built the new house eight years ago), I am especially enjoying this spring season.  Highlighting the weekend is being able to cut lilacs from one of my lilac bushes.  They both need some really good pruning, but even the more desperate of the two produced enough blooms to bring cheer (and good smells) to my office.