Many times this week I actually went to

The backyard...I warned you this could happen. I spent a lot of time working around a patio area under my pergola, and also freshened up and planted a new shrub out front.


Here is the loop of my yard.


This weekend I trimmed everything up nicely and got my camera. Here is not actually the finished project but a good sense of how my yard looks this spring. I love my time in the yard. Notice in the loop player the Irises. They once were cared for by someone our family knows as Paw Paw. Actually he had a fatal heart attack thinning out his Irises one year. I have moved them here from our original home in Springfield. They are doing very well in a part sun part shade location. Tom Jr is attempting to grow some of Paw Paw's Irises in Georgia. I'm not too sure they like the sandy soil and higher water table. We shall see. Eventually what will probably happen is a container garden in GA and AZ with irises in them, as I don't think Becky is going to have any better luck in the hot dry desert of AZ either.

Speaking of Becky, the clump of daffodils in the picture are for her, and the smaller but very pretty single daffodil, yep that one is for my sweet grandbaby girl Elia.

Special memories sit in the front of the patio area. A boy with a bird, a girl with a kitten, and a raccoon that has moved everywhere I have moved since Loraine church. My kids need to actually remind me if they think the raccoon actually lived in Oakwood first. I am not sure on that one but it did live at Loraine...well you know, beautify our property there.