Mom

Happy Mom's Day weeken! Glorious weather today and tomorrow is expected...and we certainly deserve glaring sunshine and warm temps. Boats are appearing on the lake; the docks await spectators who enjoy relaxing on the water; gardeners are digging, at least raking the leaves off the soil in preparation for planting.

Is it too soon for buying flower baskets to hang on the deck? Geraniums will do fine, but petunias are a bit more delicate. Can't wait to see colorful baskets of flowers appearing on neighbors decks and at their front doors. Floating petunia blossoms mixed with pansy faces and verbena, asparagus ferns and those tiny blue/purple flowers. They make me feel happy and energized.

It's time to get out the lawn chairs and my watercolors. The woods are filled with wildflowers popping up wherever sunshine can reach them. Nothing creates a finer composition than nature in the woods. Delicate blossoms sprout of hepatica, trillium, May flowers,spring beauties, and Dutchman's Breeches. Jack in the Pulpits will be appearing shortly, but so will the ticks which tramatize me and Buddy. The papers today warn of lyme's disease so difficult to treat and to get rid of. Guess I'll forego our treks into the woods to survey new plants...looking on from afar is just fine.

Time to get outside to rake leaves and pick up sticks in the yard in preparation for mowing and planting. Got to stake some tall leaves already tipping over and place the bird bath. Sunscreen and a hat to ward against skin cancer are important for me to remember as well as a filled water dish for Buddy. Can't wait for my bench to be installed on the dock so I can read out there on the water and survey Carmen's Bay and its goings-on!