Spring Isn't Just Pretty Flowers

There's more to spring than greener grass and pretty wildflowers. Spring also included the return of ticks, chiggers and these guys.


This copperhead tried to join me in the basement the other night, but I convinced him to go somewhere else.

Spring Isn't Just Pretty Flowers

Rue Anemone

From March, 2007

The route we normally walk every afternoons includes both a northwest and southeast slope. Almost all the wildflowers are on the northwest slope because it is more moist.

More information on rue anemones at Asheville Natural and Missouri Wildflowers.

Rue Anemone

Garden Bench

Our "garden bench" for the past several years has been an old sawhorse. It's been a long time since we could actually sit on our bench without fear on ending up with our butts on the ground, but the old sawhorse has still been useful for leaning our tools against and sitting our gardening beverages of choice upon, but now, even resting such a light load on the sawhorse is risky. It's time for a replacement and we're going to use a truck toolbox that's been sitting in the old truck rusting and providing a dry home for many generations of red wasps. Sure, it looks tacky, but it ought to be useful. We can sit on it, sit our drinks and such on it, lean our tools against it and even store some small garden tools inside -- once I remove the wasps, that is. The old sawhorse is headed for the brush pile.

Garden Bench