Full, Juicy Spring at the Shed

GREEN.  We've had lots of rain this year...

We moved the old chairs around by the fire pit...niiiiice...

...and proceeded to enjoy it!

Morning, coffee, fire...LOVE it.

Look who is back!

Sweet Cecily

Honeysuckle

Gooseberries...

The path behind the shed...

Columbines

Lambsquarter

April at the Shed...

Sunset through the back window...

My herb tea mixture...

Old, old yellow tulips planted before my time...

We made a new seating area around the seldom-used firepit...I suspect it will see a lot more use now.

Happy!

Looks like it's in the midst of a forest rather than between two houses...

LOTS of violets...

Pepi helps me read Grandma's wildflower book

Belle at the door

They're back!

Hotei seems happy!

Sweet cecily...

New firepit

I tried to find a link to our new firepit, bought last fall (J. says on sale, maybe at Lowe's), and haven't been able to do so.  It's lightweight, has a grill the fire rests on (not sure about that part, may replace with sand or clay litter), has a screen lid and came with an odd little poker/lifter.  Quite the deal!

It was WELL under $50, and the ones I'm finding are mostly a lot more than that.  A LOT.  But Home Depot has the most inexpensive ones, now...$29!!

First Fire

Like everyone else, we have lots of twigs and limbs dead or down over the  winter...finally, it wasn't raining, so we decided to get out the new (as of last fall!) fire pit for its inaugural run and burn some of it while we sat on the deck and read.  VERY pleasant...and Pepi seems to agree!  (The birds weren't wild about it, though...they were shy, except the cowbirds.)

Joseph got out the pruner to bring down the dead limb that's been hanging over the path for a year...it'll make great firewood!