My Bloomers :-)

We spent most of the weekend gardening and doing yardwork. Here's BW weeding the tomato patch...

And today I noticed that our blue flax has started blooming, so I took some photos of it, as well as our lone, currently blooming iris. I picked the first two irises that bloomed and put them in a vase in our kitchen for BW's birthday (June 6). Normally I prefer to leave them blooming on our hillside by our driveway, but since 55 mph winds were predicted for the 7th, I figured I'd bring them inside so we could enjoy them rather than have them flattened! Turned out to be a good decision, as along with the wind we had 25º temps and bloody SNOW! Grrr...

Anyway, here's the flax, grown from seeds my grandmother gave us years ago (they're such a beautiful shade of blue!)...

And here's the iris!...

And, as usual, a fitting quote du'jour...

Earth laughs in flowers.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson