Easter Weekend

We had a fabulous Easter Weekend and I hope you did too!

I love the look of concentration on my daughter Zoe's face before the local egg hunt.

This was right after the pep talk, you know the one.

Don't fool around with the real eggs, go for the plastic ones.

This year I made a scavanger hunt for her Easter morning. She had to follow clues around the garden and finally found her basket in the play house.

On Easter day we picked up her cousins and headed to Longwood Gardens.

This anemone is perfection to me!

I love the pink and green combo on these tulips.

Purple Martins were back and as busy as could be!

I am captivated by the fiddleheads.

The light shining through the copper beech leaves was magical!

Killdeer eggs in my Mom's garden, between her rows of spinach.

The most beautiful eggs to find on Easter!

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

~William Shakespeare

Longwood

What a gorgeous day to look at flowers! Here are some beauties, up close and personal:)

I just love this sculpted concrete planter, I want to make one!

PS. I think this planter was made out of hypertufa - you can make it by following this link.

What's Blooming Wednesday!

I started "What's Blooming Wednesday" three weeks ago to share glimpes of my gardens and hopefully get other's to share photos on their blogs as well. If you have flowers blooming on you blog today, please let me know by leaving a comment! Here are just a few of the flowers I have coming up.

A old fashioned wild tulip. Similar to the Sylvestris.

More tulips.

The rabbits or some other other varmit ate a bunch of my tulips - boo!

Grape Hyacinth, these grow wild in my yard.

Pink forget-me-not.

The weeping red bud that my husband bought me for Mother's Day last year.

I'm so glad I didn't kill it!

Tilled a new garden in my front yard with my mom yesterday. Planted a Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, I've been wanting one of these for so long and finally bought one over the weekend at Groff's Plant Farm  for $22! They have the best prices in Lancaster County.

Longwood on May Day

I know, my readers must be sick of me sharing pictures of Longwood Gardens but what better place to visit on May Day!
It was a little rainy today but the drops held off for most of the time that we were there. The tulips were in full swing so I thought I would share a few pictures and a really short video of just a tiny snippet of the gorgeous flowers.









One of these tulips is doing her own thing!


I need to make this! Can't you picture some flowering vine growing up the corners?











Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Linda Solegato

Mini Art Pendants

I have some new necklaces coming soon, just painted the pendants today. I think they're so cute, perfect for spring and summer. Have to let them dry a day before I add cord and beads. I have a Dutch bunny and horse started that I didn't have time to finish today. Next week my husband has a three day week so I'm really hoping to work on an oil painting Thursday or Friday.




And just because I know my readers love flowers as much as I do, two more photos I took at Longwood Gardens last month (click for a larger image).