More fun in the garden
Spring has finally gotten a move on over here and when I prowl through our garden there is something new to see every day. I must have shot a couple thousand photos this year already – too lazy to count them right now, but there have been over 300 today alone.
Of course, many of them are just for documentation purposes. Since I developed this unhealthy obsession with gardening this year, I want to document when different flowers started showing up or started to bloom or whatever, just so I can go back next year when the wait for them to show themselves seems endless again and make sure that it’s just my general impatience that’s making me impatient.
I have been terribly impatient this year, since the bloody winter seemed just never ending. But when I compare my photos of, say, early March to the latest ones it is quite nice to see how much is already going on. It is just so much nicer to look out at green trees and colorful flowerbeds than at bare branches and naked earth.
Right now I have a thing for tulips, although most of them are already dying again. Because the weather wasn’t right to take good pictures I missed out on most of them again. Ah well, there’s always next year I guess…
Funnily enough when I go through my garden I mostly tend to notice the tiny flowers, the ones normal people either don’t see at all or classify mostly as weeds. 
Some of them might be weeds, but in my garden that doesn’t automatically mean they have to go. As long as they’re pretty and don’t run over the other flowers I am more than happy to have most of them around, not least because they are usually more useful to the insects than many of the exotic plants that are grown in normal gardens.
Plus, and this is a big plus in my eyes: they tend to need not much tending and nurturing. They come and go as they please, they grow wherever they like, need no protection in winter, throw around their seeds liberally and basically just save me a lot of work and give me more time to enjoy my garden as it should be enjoyed: in a lounge chair with a Mai Tai in one hand and a book in the other.
What makes me happiest is that my favorite tree finally unfurls its beautiful leaves. That one always takes the longest to start doing anything each spring, but when it finally does I know that summer is really not that far away anymore.
I love my garden.
I love your garden too! And these beautiful flowers will last me until the next spring! I love them all.