back to life

This is my first gardening season after a year of landscaping that ended in November when everything was becoming dormant and the land seemed like it was turning to stone as I was forcing bulbs and fava beans and peas into the soil.
Then the wait began. Two months of cold and rain and then finally the first signs of spring. It is amazing to focus on the tiny signs of everything coming back to life. The temperature of the soil, the tiny green leaves hidden under brown and brittle branches and most of all this ladybug on the Jasmine.

Tulips, Muscari, Daffodils, fava beans and peas have all burst into life..... I'm so happy I withstanded the rain in november to get them in the ground.
The pictures are to share the overwhelming joy of this new experience.
If the peas and fava beans keep up the flowering we will be sharing lots of crops also!

orange pansy

I'm very grateful to the tiny orange joys on my windowsill for the effortless happiness they have brought me all the way through this long cold and rainy winter.
I never even watered them once! But now Spring is finally back and I will have to find a shady spot in mom's garden where the pansies can survive hopefully until next november far away from the scortching summer heat and sun.
Thanks mom for this beautiful gift.
See you in the garden soon!