Of Gardening and Spring

I love to shop. I suppose I'm much of a typical girl in that sense, I can spend hours and hours and hours browsing, looking, touching, and perhaps even eventually buying.

When I wasn't in my conference in New Orleans last month, I spent every free minute walking and shopping all throughout the French Quarter. I just love it.

Two of my favorite things to buy are books and plants, and now that spring has finally arrived in Colorado, I have started purchasing plants with reckless abandon. My planter boxes overfloweth, my mini whiskey barrel is a work of art and my hanging basket is all a-froth with pink flowers. My back garden is the repository for all things bulbs, and seeds and though they are growing....the thing about this form of plant-life is that it takes a while for them to come into their own and really take off.

Like maybe a year or two.

And honestly, who has that kind of time with nothing else in between?!

So last night when we went to Home Depot, as I was browsing for 2 more packs of petunias for the flower boxes. . . I found them. Bright pinks, oranges and yellow Nordic Poppies....called Champagne Bubbles.

I couldn't resist. They went in my cart, as did some Geraniums and Sweet William. Greg sighed and shook his head as we went to check out, another $30 to the backyard...but I was excited. Many girls like shopping for shoes and clothes and other things that stay in their house where no one can see them...but in the summer my garden is something to see, something that brings beauty and life to the Prairie around us.

And I'm rather proud of that.